Re: [syndication] OCS Version 0.5 draft

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

> > Nothing's stopping the user from defaulting that behavior for
> > any/all OCS links detected but the reader who /don't/ want that extra bulk
are
> > completely free to ignore it.
> Good idea Bill.

Thanks, this line of thinking has gelled for me recently with the comments made
by Ziv about wanting full text in feeds.  This also dovetails into what I've
been saying since last year, it would very handy to establish a common way for a
feed into indicate that 'more' information is available.  Kevin's mod_link as
well as some dublin core stuff is already present and could be used to help the
process.  What's missing, of course, is the XML-oriented interfaces for
extracting partial items.  Would that the CMS kept the 'richer content' in a way
that was exposed via an API we'd have a solution.

This way, someone like Ziv, being interested in full content when available
could simply default his reader to downloading the richer content, while others
would only do so on an case-by-case basis.

It would be interesting to consider whether the OCS data for the channel could
help this process somehow.  Perhaps a way to say "this channel is a known full
content provider" or something to that effect.  Hmmmmm...

-Bill Kearney