Syndicating other kinds of content with RSS

["Bill Dennen" <billdennen@hotmail.com>]

Hi there-

I have a question about syndicating content other than NEWS FEEDS using RSS. 
"Syndicating" might not be the right word, so I apologize.

Basically, we'd like to set up an infrastructure that uses RSS for content 
other than news feeds. We're in the process of putting together some 
proposals for creating a personalized web page for students at the 
university where I work. I'd like to see us use XML as the basis for some of 
this, including RSS.

For example, we'd like to set up thing so that dining menus and events 
calendars can be "syndicated." We could do something like this:

<item>
  <title>Lunch - March 14, 2001</title>
  <link></link>
  <description>Hot dog, French fries, Pizza strips</description>
</item>

Note, there wouldn't be a need for a <link> in this, however, the RSS spec 
seems to require it.

Is anyone using RSS to syndicate this type of content. Does anyone have any 
tips or pointers? Am I crazy to think that  we can do things this way?

Thanks-
Bill

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