Re: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Dave Winer wrote:

> Jeff I'm not an expert on Dublin Core either, but I suggest we not go down
> that slippery slope. Keep it simple.

I'm not sure why you refer to DC[1] as a slippery slope here.  

RSS 0.91 already has two DC elements at the channel and item levels
(title, description), along with some rather similar elements
(eg. copyright=rights, pubDate/lastBuildDate=date, ...).

Since you're not using namespaces or RDF, you're not worried about any
higher order semantics, so incorporating DC into the core is really rather 
flat, simple, and useful...

...
 <item>
   <title>An Item</title>
   <link>http://www.somewhereorother.com/item.html</link>
   <description>This is a description of An Item...</description>
   <creator>Anne Author</creator>
   <subject>Woodwork, Metalsmithing</subject>
   <type>news</type>
   <language>en-us</language>
   <date>2000-10-13</date>
   <format>text/html</format>
   <rights>Copyright 2000, Something or Other</rights>
   <publisher>Somewhere or Other, Inc.</publisher>
 </item>
...

Hope this is of some help,

Rael

[1] http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

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