ScriptingNews: The future of RSS

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

Flavor A: http://static.userland.com/gems/backend/sampleRss.xml
Flavor B: http://my.theinfo.org/rss/newversion.xml

They look very similar to me, which makes me wonder what all the
hubbub is about.

I haven't figured out the gain of having explicit RDF statements
within each RSS instance, I thought that sort of information could be
maintained out of band.  Here's hoping someone can clear that up for
me.

The RDF+NS RSS 1.0 proposal has one of the cleanest and most
appropriate uses of XML namespaces I've ever seen.  It's obvious to me
how Flavor B can be extended by anyone, at anytime, without stepping
on anybody else toes or requiring a central authority or
clearinghouse.  Is it possible the reaction to namespaces is more a
reaction to onerous uses of namespaces in other specs rather than its
use in RSS?

  -- Ken