Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 DTD: So what now?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

There's another possibility, we could get a set of replicated directories
going, one lightweight centralized and replicatable node, that keeps lots of
replicated servers updated.

Of course this is just another way to look at the xmlStorageSystem spec we
published a few weeks ago.

http://www.soapware.org/xmlStorageSystem

Ever the evangelist..

Dave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: [syndication] RSS 0.91 DTD: So what now?


> Hi,
>
> : Rael, I think the first thing to do is to check and double-check the DTD
> : that's there and be sure it's the right one. It seems that should be
> : relatively easy to determine. I would hate to think that I got the wrong
> : copy or there's a transmission error, and somehow that gets replicated.
>
> It does indeed seem to be the right version; at least it jives with the
DTD
> in XML::RSS's package.
>
> : Second, I think the idea of a directory of replicates is a great
> : one. I also
> : think that now that we have the chance, we should include the url to
that
> : directory in a comment in the DTD, in case we go belly-up, or get
> : taken over
> : by AOL, or whatever.
>
> So how do people reference this DTD in their feeds?  What if that server
is
> down for the few seconds a parser is working with a feed?
>
> There's going to be a whole lot of shuffling as people are changing their
> RSS files to use the DTD that's most available at any one point.
>
> : Beyond that, I don't have any more ideas.
>
> RSS needs to, 1.0 or otherwise, move away from the static DTD model and
> reliance on a single point of availability (read: inevitable failure).
>
> Rael
>
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