Using RSS 1.0

["Niel M. Bornstein" <niel@bornstein.atlanta.ga.us>]

Hi all -

Just wanted to drop a line to let you all know that I've started producing
an RSS 1.0 version of Monkeyfist.com (http://monkeyfist.com/rss1.php3), and
I must say I really like this spec.

The fact that I can drop in elements from Dublin Core, for example, really
made my day.  Each article on Monkeyfist could be written by a different
member of the team, and there was no way in 0.91 to indicate the author of
a particular item. I had taken to prepending the author's last name to the
<description> element, which, while it gets the point across, is not really
a very good use of metadata.  With Dublin Core, I can just use <dc:creator>
and voila.

Similarly with the other modules; if we happen to swipe a link from
somewhere else I can use <ag:source> to indicate it.

I'm looking forward to continuing to play with 1.0, and hope you will all
take a stab at implementing it too.  It was extremely easy to adapt my RSS
0.91 script.  Now I'm off to read about RDF...

Niel