RE: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

["Mike Cannon-Brookes" <mike@bookmarkbox.com>]

my only qualm about the <date> field as discussed, it's very hard to sort by
date using XSLT? At the moment we use a raw integer date value (representing
ms since 1970 or close to) but that's obviously not very human readable /
writeable - is there a solution to this?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Barr [mailto:jeff@vertexdev.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:53 AM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92
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> (Ignore my last post...)
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> Dave, I am assuming that you are asking about the meaning of the
> <date> field, right? I would want it to be the publication time
> of the referenced item. If there are other dates of value then
> we could add additional field. I think that the publication time
> is of the most value.
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> Jeff;
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 4:07 AM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92
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> To Tristan, I'm uncomfortable voting for the <date> element
> unless there's a
> spec that says how it fits into the 0.91 spec. The actual
> proposed language
> for an 0.92 spec would be great.
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> Jeff I'm not an expert on Dublin Core either, but I suggest we not go down
> that slippery slope. Keep it simple.
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> Also, taxonomy is a big subject. The last time there were serious open
> discussions about next steps in RSS (in the May-June timeframe)
> this was put
> on the table by Dale Dougherty at O'Reilly, and we had done some
> experimentation on it at UserLand. One of my jobs for this morning will be
> to dig up that thread and see what we did.
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> I also want to work out a simple XML-RPC/SOAP integration, I want
> to make a
> channel subscribable, so that the publisher calls the subscriber when
> there's an update.
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> Finally, I had a meeting with the ICE Working Group a few weeks ago. I'm
> going to help them come up with a "lite" version that is philosophically
> compatible with RSS 0.91 and any successors (but not the
> Namespaces-RDF-modular thread, which I don't see as being philosophically
> compatible with RSS 0.91). They don't want to adopt RSS syntax, but they
> want to offer current RSS syndicators an easy way to participate in their
> networks. I think this is a good goal. They have an ICE
> "cookbook" which is
> easy to follow, I've asked for an HTML version of this document,
> and expect
> that we'll simplify it even more, and see where we can take it.
>
> Dave
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