Re: [syndication] Re: Aggregating and displaying feeds

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

ESI is more about reducing the granularity of a resource on the Web
for purposes of cacheability, by assembling it at the 'edge' of the
network. It's very similar to XInclude, except that it is processed
at a particular point (in the edge), rather than the first
XInclude-aware XML processor that stumbles across it. ESI also has a
logic layer similar to XSLT.

I'm not sure how applicable ESI would be to syndication. Edge
delivery of syndication feeds and channels might be interesting for
performance and load, but not for embedding high-level logic.

However, this sort of thing (deciding what items are interesting,
what feeds are interesting to download, what objects should be
pre-loaded) is a very applicable problem in the mobile agents field,
and, therefore, the Semantic Web *gasp* ;)



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:42:07PM -0000, Bill Kearney wrote:
> 
> > Is there an area where the edge-side include ideas would be 
> > relevant?  I no nothing about this other than seeing it mentioned 
> > briefly.  The idea being to construct your web materials to take 
> > advantage of "things" nearer to the edge of the network.  
> 
> http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-05-24-a.html
> http://www.edge-delivery.org/


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