Re: RSS feeds for bookmarks

["Aaron of Montreal" <aaron_of_montreal@yahoo.ca>]

--- In syndication@y..., Julian Bond <julian_bond@v...> wrote:
> In article <1006692701.3c00e95d99c50@w...>, John Gotze
> <john@g...> writes
> >Syndication of bookmarks/links is not optimal in RSS 0.91, which I
use. I see 
> >you, Mark, use, RSS 1.0. Do you think this is the optimal way to
syndicate 
> >bookmarks?
> 
> Why is 0.9x sub-optimal for bookmarks? Surely it's just <item> =
> bookmark, <link> = URL, <title>=text description? 

I don't have any problem with syndicating bookmarks as RSS but I would
caution against it for any kind of storage. RSS has never been taught
to nest data (e.g. folders) and lacking any kind of standardized
support for ids, is unable to do things like "aliases". 

And then there is the question of why you would want to re-invent the
XBEL wheel; it already has created and lastmod attributes.

Mr. Crankypants, over here, asks : isn't this an XSLT thing?