Re: [syndication] How the newsreader see the domain attribute of the category element

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

I make use of something like:

<category domain="http://www.ideaspace/users/wkearney/xml/categories.rdf#";>Some
Text</category>

This where I'm expecting that to resolve into:
    http://www.ideaspace/users/wkearney/xml/categories.rdf#Some%20Text

Where "Some Text" (html encoded) is a fragment marked by an rdf:ID within that
vocabulary.  Using an exposed vocabulary file opens up a world of metadata
possibilities.  Mine's only in it's alpha state but I'll add more as I get the
chance.

It also let's me use something like this:

<dc:subject
rdf:resource="http://www.ideaspace/users/wkearney/xml/categories.rdf#Some%20Text
" dc:title="Some Text"/>

That's provides both a programmatically accessible vocabulary as well as a
'friendly' title string.  I could, for the sake of being 'bit stingy' do some
internal entity references as well as leave out the title string.  But seeing as
how many RSS readers have had long term trouble with doing real XML parsing I
figure this is safer for them.

This as opposed to wandering off into things that won't work in other XML
applications.  This would let others use my vocabulary as a reference point in
making associations.  As in, I call it 'x' while someone else calls it 'y'.  But
hey, this is basic RDF theory so I won't explain it unless someone needs it.

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Décarie" <emm@scriptdigital.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: [syndication] How the newsreader see the domain attribute of the
category element


> I posted a question on the RSS2-Support list and Dave W. kindly replied. But
I'm not
> sure if I correctly understand his answers. Since there is a lot of people
here that
> implement aggregators and newsreaders, I though I could ask also here to hear
from
> other implementors.
>
> If you have time, please check this thread:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSS2-Support/message/309
>
> I'm trying to implement some sort of spec related to eLearning. What I'd like
to do in
> the long run, is to see if a quiz could be build in a weblog and dissemated by
RSS 2.0.
> Its a long shot.
>
> Anyway, here's the crux of my question.
>
> What I have in the back of my mind is how the newsreader see the value of the
> domain attribute. Are they automatically inferring that its an url and create
a link that
> have for value the value of the category tag?
>
> For example I don't want:
> <category domain="1">question</category>
> Parsed in a newsreader as:
> <a href="1">question</a>