Re: [syndication] Source ID

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

Julian, <source> is used if you got the item from another source. For
example if you pick up a bit from Scripting News, it carries a <source>
element that says "These wise words came from Scripting News."

As the spec says: "The purpose of this element is to propogate credit for
links, to publicize the sources of news items."

The other links were as they always were in previous RSSs.

I had another idea last night, after reading a post on the Radio mail list
[1], that it would be interesting to add an element (optional of course) to
<channel> that contains a pointer to a list of your favorite RSS sources. It
could be very interesting and could be viral. The goal of course is to
propogate knowledge of other sources of news, to help build the network.
Like the links down the left-edges of many weblogs.

Dave

[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-userland/message/9079


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian@netmarketseurope.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Source ID


> In article <0cbe01c0d6fc$8bd4dde0$33a1dc40@murphy>, Dave Winer
> <dave@userland.com> writes
> >Pino, I added a <source> element in 0.92 [1]  for this purpose. This
> >discussion has happened before. We use this element in Radio to clearly
> >indicate where an item originated from.
>
> I'm confused about the intention behind <channel>.<link>,  <item>.<link>
> and <item>.<source url> in 0.92
>
> I'd understand it like this:-
> <channel>.<link> The URL of the website home page to which the rss
> refers.
>
> <item>.<link> The URL of the web page containing the full text to which
> the <item> refers.
>
> <item>.<source url> The URL of a web page that is cited in the full text
> pointed to by <item>.<link>. Or alternatively, the URL of the RSS file
> from which an <item> was cited in the full text pointed to by
> <item>.<link>
>
> Is this right?
>
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