Re: [syndication] XSL stylesheet for RSS (all versions)

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From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>


>
> As you've realized, it's going to be necessary to prepend something on the
URL
> to indicate that it needs to be parsed locally.
>
> I'm curious why an effort to create a protocol handler for rss:// was
never
> undertaken.  Was there some outstanding reason?  It would have afforded
quite a
> range of possibilities.  Of course proper file typing and content
negotiation
> could accomplish much of the same results.  But still, is it worth
considering?
>
Don't take this negatively, but that would be really silly.
A URI protocol for retrievable/modifiable items is the network handshaking
to interact with the resource - and RSS resources just need GET, PUT,
DELETE - which are handled just fine by HTTP.

You mentioned the need 'to prepend something on the URL to indicate that it
needs to be parsed locally'
What did you mean by that - there may be something fishy going on or maybe
something in HTTP that already does what you want.