Re: [syndication] Sandard RSS location?

[burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org>]

"james@xmlTree.com" wrote:
> 
> Kevin
> 
> > - RSSRegistry (moreover,xmltree,etc) just registers ocs files.  So for
> > example a RSSRegistry entry would just be http://SERVER/index.ocs.  This
> > would then point to:
> >
> > /news/news.rss
> > /cgi-bin/fast.cgi
> > etc
> >
> > This has the advantage of a central repository/registry for index.ocs
> > files and then each site has control over the actual files that have
> > RSS.  This is similar in design to DNS.
> 
> I agree that xmlTree should contain OCS files, and allow RSS data consumers to grab the
> metadata of the RSS channels themselves if they wish.  I will be confirming and adding
> details of the OCS files that I know about to xmlTree this week.  But so far, the only
> publishers who bother with the additional step of OCS are those who produce more than 10
> channels (only a handful). For publishers who produce only one or two channels, writing
> and updating an OCS file represents a significant increase in work.  Having said that, the
> opportunity to allow more distributed discovery is exciting.

Of course we can go ahead and do this now.  If you put OCS within the
XMLTree OCS I will add support for recursive nesting of OCS.  If you
check out Jetspeed the URLs for Moreover and 10.am are there too.  This
way Jetspeed doesn't have to be a duplication of the channel registry
mechanism within XMLTree :)
 
> Ironically, it seems like this role for OCS would resemble the sitemap role originally
> planned for RSS.  Meanwhile, we are discussing how to move OCS along.  My particular
> interest is in adding category information to OCS to allow OCS consumers to browse OCS
> instead of having to work with a large monolithic document containing details of thousands
> of RSS files.

Yes.  Jetspeed needs this big time.  It would be nice to map this
directly with DMOZ.  The advantages this would have are HUGE!  I am
going to work on an a RSS/XML search and republication mechanism
PROPOSAL in Jetspeed (could be in 1.2) that will be similar to Meerkat
(aggregation of items based on time from multiple XML sources).  The
categorization and DMOZ functionality will be huge! :)  This way I can
produce a different set of new news items from each category.

Kevin.

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