Re: [syndication] Mixing XHTML and RSS -- Time for XHTML-RSS?

[Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>]

On Saturday, 26 April 2003 at 20:55, Doug Ransom wrote:
> For really simple syndication, simpler even than Really Simple 
> Syndication (RSS 2), why not define a syndication module for html?   
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/
I really like this idea. It should be pretty simple to produce an
extended DTD for validation too.


> The first description would show up in an aggregator as "Today we went 
> fishing", because the blink tag would be stripped out.  The rss elements 
> would not be noticed by users with web browsers unless theauthor 
> provided a CSS to display the rss elements. 
Why strip out the tags - there is quite a demand for including html in
rss and this proposal does it very elegantly.


> This allows for single source html and RSS without fiddling with web 
> server content-accept, tying to convert one document format to another, 
> etc.  And it can be converted to RSS 2.0 or 1 with a remarkably simple 
> program by the aggregator.
A simple stylesheet should do the trick

My only request - please lets not call it RSS. I'm not sure we can
have yet another incompatible version. I'm willing to make the OCS
(open content syndication) name and domains available to an open
group to develop a channel format to go along with the existing
directory format. (Aside: this happened once before, but I withdrew it
when RSS 0.91 was released a few days later)





- Ian <iand@internetalchemy.org>
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."