Ian Davis wrote:
Thats true, if the user-agent knows what to do with them, they can do something with them. If they don't, they should probably display the text anyway. Sometimes HTML developers put what would correspond to RSS items in tables and table cells, and that might be problematic for aggregators.On Saturday, 26 April 2003 at 20:55, Doug Ransom wrote:For really simple syndication, simpler even than Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2), why not define a syndication module for html? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/I really like this idea. It should be pretty simple to produce an extended DTD for validation too.The first description would show up in an aggregator as "Today we went fishing", because the blink tag would be stripped out. The rss elements would not be noticed by users with web browsers unless theauthor provided a CSS to display the rss elements.Why strip out the tags - there is quite a demand for including html in rss and this proposal does it very elegantly.
Doh! I had a pretty good name for the RSS acronym, but I am going to keep it to myself. I would like the name to indicate its based on RSS. I have been thinking that this *could* work with any flavour of RSS, but RSS 2 is the only practical one for this extremely simple syndication method (lets not us an acronym based on that either). Do you really think its better to wrap RSS with a new spec rather than add a namespace to RSS 2.0 and state "An RSS document is an XML document, and the first channel encountered within the RSS 2.0 namespace is the syndicated content (possibly with all html table,td,th,tr elements removed)?This allows for single source html and RSS without fiddling with web server content-accept, tying to convert one document format to another, etc. And it can be converted to RSS 2.0 or 1 with a remarkably simple program by the aggregator.A simple stylesheet should do the trickMy only request - please lets not call it RSS.
Ok, let me take a stab at the first draft.I'm not sure we can have yet another incompatible version. I'm willing to make the OCS (open content syndication) name and domains available to an open group to develop a channel format to go along with the existing directory format. (Aside: this happened once before, but I withdrew it when RSS 0.91 was released a few days later)
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