RE: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

["David Galbraith" <david@moreover.com>]

The problem with aggregating using RSS at the moment is that if you pull
together a list of related items from different sources then the aggregator
appears to be the source.
adding <source> and perhaps <source_link> to the existing <title> and <link>
would solve this. At he moment the <description> tag is sometimes used to
contain metadata that would naturally fit into more than one element tag.
DG

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:34 AM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
>
>
> DJ, I totally agree.
>
> There's no requirement that an aggregator do anything at all with any part
> of RSS.
>
> How do I know? Because there would be no way to enforce such a
> requirement,
> nor would it be a weblike thing to do.
>
> My.UserLand certainly doesn't pay attention to all parts of RSS.
> And neither
> does My.Netscape.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DJ Adams" <dj.adams@gmx.net>
> To: <syndication@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
>
>
> > > a) Optional versus mandatory items -- If an RSS supplier includes an
> > > <textInput> or <image> element, am I as an agreggator "required" to
> render
> > > those items when I render the channel?
> > >
> > > a1) On a sideways-related topic, is the "implied contract" between
> > supplier
> > > & aggregator that the aggregator will always render the supplied items
> > > grouped into a channel as they were provided? Or can I provide users
> with
> > a
> > > search capability that allows extraction of individual
> syndicated items
> > from
> > > a channel without rendering the whole thing?
> >
> > FWIW, I think the answers should be (a) NO and (b) NO, YES.
> >
> > Basically I can see nothing (correct me if I'm wrong) that says that RSS
> > data must be rendered [in human readable form, e.g. HTML] anyway.
> >
> > dj
> > (neither an active supplier nor aggregator)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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