Re: shared feed lists

["tappnel" <app@mplode.com>]

--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@i...> wrote:
 
> Right now Syndic8 publishes my personal lists idea.  We can easily implement any
> new format for this as it's largely template driven.  I'd raised the question on
> aggregators as to how readers would react to new namespaced elements being 
used
> in OPML files.  Intial feedback seems to indicate no readers had trouble seeing
> past the added data.
> 
> As to ADX, it's as useful as anything else I suppose, here's a list in it's
> format:
> http://www.syndic8.com/genfeed.php?Format=adx&UserID=wkearney99&List=8

Very nice.
 
> Got a few rough spots, all of which are easily fixed if sufficient interest
> develops.  

Agreed.

> I'm also not entirely clear on what the IndexRef is supposed to be pointing
> toward.   Is it pointing to itself?  Or to another file?  Sort of like
> rdfd:seeAlso?  If so, it'd be helpful to allow use of a type attribute of some
> kind to let the consuming program know what format the external document is
> using.  Or is this expecting to be an ADX-only world?  (not that there's
> anything wrong with that idea).

Taking into context that James was transcribing my example in WSIL[1], IndexRef is a 
link to another directory/index. The equivalent of the <link> element in WSIL. This is 
not limited to itself.

In my feedback I note that IndexRef alone misses the opportunity to provide addition 
meta data information such as type (as you point out) or a title/name. This is also an 
important allowance for putting such a format into blogroll use. This would also 
provide the ability for large site such as Yahoo! or Amazon to create a distributed 
directory heirarchy. 

Hope that helps.

<tim/>

[1] http://www.mplode.com/tima/archives/000319.html