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

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

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Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com> writes:

> On Sunday, August 12, 2001, at 04:59  PM, burtonator wrote:
> 
> > Because a mime/media type is just that... a media type.  We 
> > need to have two
> > entries for the content format for a number of reasons:
> >
> > mimeType doesn't offer us enough information.  We need to 
> > support real URIs for
> > the content type as in http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/ 
> > This specific
> > example has a mimeType of text/xml and this long namespace.  
> > How do you intend
> > on doing both?
> 
> Well, by saying both, of course:
> 
> <item ...>
> 	...
> 	<f:format rdf:resource="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/"; />
> 	<f:format rdf:resource="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-
> notes/iana/assignments/media-types/text/xml" />
> 	...
> </item>

Yes... The only problem is that it would be hard (or impossible) to write a
schema for this.  IE what if I said that the content type was text/xml and
text/html??? That might confuse a lot of applications.

Kevin

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