Re: [syndication] Re: eXtensible Content Syndication (the next step for OCS)

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

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Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> writes:
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> 2) To allow a site with multiple feeds to produce a machine readable file with
> details of those feeds and how to call them. And maybe lists of dead or moved
> feeds.

I think this will move into a deprecations module.

> 3) To provide a storage format for distributing a list of feeds with the
> install image of a client side aggregator.

I don't understand this?

> Any others?
> 
> The point being that this is meta-data about multiple feeds, not about the
> items within a single feed. Now this could be implemented as an alternate
> format of RSS where for <item> read <feed>. Or it could be a new format.
> 
> I get the feeling that this pattern is going to get repeated many times for
> different standards. First we get the standard to describe the data or
> service, then we get the meta-standard to list instances of the standard. The
> first is used by implementations. The second is used by index/search sites.

Yes... I agree.  If we design XCS correctly we could solve this.  Of course
maybe it shouldn't be "content syndication" then.  

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