Re: [syndication] All known OCS feeds?

[burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org>]

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Brian Aker <brian@tangent.org> writes:

> burtonator wrote:
> > Is there an OCS feed from Meerkat?  I did see the XMLRPC interface but I don't
> > believe this provides the required info...

> I am not sure if there is one or not, but we did discuss at the Open Source
> Conference about replacing it with a RSS 1.0 format (basically it came down to
> using the dublin core content field with a pointer to the format for an RSS
> OCS type feed).

I am working on an e-mail which document an eXtensible Content Syndication
format (XCS).  I will send it out later today.

RSS 1.0 is nice but I don't think there is a perfect/correct mapping.  I think
that XCS should reuse a lot of what we learned with RSS 1.0 but should also take
into consideration what we learned with OCS.

> We also discussed creating a robots.rss to provide people with a means to
> discover all of the feeds for a site (and how if you mix items in a single
> feed you could create a means to navigate a site). One fellow who was from
> Yahoo seemed keen on this. If this sounds like a fairly workable solution we
> will probably add it to the Slash hosting engine.

I was thinking index.xcs (or index.FORMAT ).

I think it is a good idea.  The other advantage is that you could use it to hold
multiple index.xcs files.  IE

http://server.com/index.xcs (contains all syndications)

http://server.com/fishing/index.xcs (contains all syndications WRT fishing)

If you are a few levels within a website you could find the most appropriate
XCS file by doing back down the directory tree until you hit the /

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