Re: [syndication] Re: RSS feeds for bookmarks

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 06:21 AM, Aaron of Montreal wrote:

> 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.

I actually had the passing thought a while back to make an XBEL module 
for RSS.  While of course one could simply use XBEL, it's really nice to 
use the same engines for multiple purposes.  What do you folks think of 
an XBEL RSS 1.0 module?

Rael