Re: RSS Version 0.91 Out

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@xxxxx.xxxx]

I've got mixed feelings about this; the new format is a good step forward,
but on the other hand, NS hasn't seemed to want to work with anyone on it,
which doesn't fill me with confidence.

I think the thing to do here is to use 0.91 as the basis of a more
publicly-developed format. I'm thinking along the lines of:

* make the title optional (see below)
* inline links in the description
* channel categorisation by dewey (or whatever)
* item categorisation by reference to xml list on publishers site
* channel classification by format (does it have titles? does it have a
description?) so that viewers like carmen's can weed out the inappropriate
ones.

We could call it XRSS ;-)

Any takers?


----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Davis <id@openjava.org>
To: Syndication <syndication@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:07 AM
Subject: [syndication] RSS Version 0.91 Out


> From: Ian Davis <id@openjava.org>
>
>
> If you haven't seen it yet the spec for RSS 0.91 is out:
>
> http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html
>
> Major changes are the additions of new elements and the complete
> removal of any RDF notation. Even the name has changed to Rich Site
> Summary. This is going to break a number of RSS readers, although it
> makes it much cleaner.
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