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

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> 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.

Indeed, the HTTP transport does well handle the delivery of the RSS documents.
I'm not suggesting that change.  There is the possiblity of using other
transports like the many freenets for RSS distribution as well.  Using an rss://
protocol handler would presume to impede their use as well.

> 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.

Herein lies one problem, the servers delivering the RSS documents aren't,
generally, doing much about content negotiaton or file typing.  It would be a
*great* thing to see them start doing it but it's not something well implemented
at the present time.  To get them to start doing this is going to be a rather
difficult task, especially without serious commitment on genuine content type
standardization.  As if it's not hard enough getting them to make compliant XML,
getting them to do content typing might seem like a lot to ask (with little
reward).

-Bill Kearney