Meerkat Update: Dublin Core, XML-RPC, and SOAP

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

As some of you may already have noticed, Meerkat[0] has been updated and now
sports Dublin Core Metadata elements[1] extracted from RSS 1.0[2] feeds to
which it subscribes.  This additional metadata is made available both in
Meerkat's default user interface and in outgoing RSS 1.0 and other feeds.

Meerkat's URL-line API[3] has been updated as appropriate, documenting new
flavours and arguments/settings.

Meerkat's XML-RPC interface[4], too, supports this new functionality.  To
see it in action, give the test suite[5] a whirl.

A new SOAP interface--a direct port of the XML-RPC interface--is in the
works and will be made available shortly.

Enjoy!

Rael

[0] http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/
[1] http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
[2] http://purl.org/rss/1.0/
[3] http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/rss/2000/05/09/meerkat_api.html
[4] http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/rss/2000/11/14/meerkat_xmlrpc.html
[5] http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/xml-rpc/test.php

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Rael Dornfest
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I'm really a standard brand--like Campbell's
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