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Newsreaders display of categories
Title: Newsreaders display of
categories
Thanks all for the input on my previous post.
I was thinking further about this question of eLearning and
quizzes.
Basically, I want to use a weblog to build a quiz and RSS to display
the content.
I don't know much RSS 1.0 and maybe this protocol could help. I'll try
to catch up and
next week I plan to buy Ben Hammersley book (I'm not so good at
reading specs) and
further my reading on RDF.
Here's my question.
In NetNewsWire, when you look at a headline, you get, depending of the
type of RSS a
couples of columns.
I'll take for example the Burningbird RSS which is based on RSS 1.0
and use for defining topics the Dublin core.
In NetNewsWire, this look like a spreadsheet or a table.
Burningbird Headlines | Date | Creator | Subject
When I click on the Date header column, I can see a view by most or
least recent posts. When I click on a the Creator or Subject headers,
I can see a view ordered by alphabetical order (ascendent or
descendent).
Now to get back on my problem.
What I'd like to display in the headlines headers in the newsreader is
this:
Quizzes Headlines | Category | Ident | Position | Material
Quizzes Headlines = questions
ex. What is the capital of Canada?
Category -> type of description which can be question | response |
condition | resource
Ident -> Since each quiz is a RSS channel, each quiz can have up to
10 questions, so each question/response are grouped (i.e. question1,
response1 # 1, response1 # 2, etc...)
Position -> the position of the response in the responses
listing.
Condition -> The correct response (i.e response1 # 2 is the correct
response)
Material -> type of the description: image | sound | html
snippet
Resource -> If the question need to display html | sound |
image
So, if your are following me, here's an example of what I'd like
to see in a newsreader:
Quiz Geo GT60 |
Category | Ident | Position | Material
------------------|----------|-------|----------|---------
Canada's capital? | question | 1 |
0 | mattext
Washington | response |
1 | 1
| mattext
Ottawa
| response | 1 |
2 | mattext
Paris | response | 1 |
3 | mattext
2 | condition|
1 | 0
| mattext
France's capital? | question | 2 |
0 | mattext
Washington | response |
2 | 1
| mattext
Ottawa
| response | 2 |
2 | mattext
Paris | response | 2 |
3 | mattext
3 | condition|
2 | 0
| mattext
Why use RSS and a newsreader at all. Well, its a long shot, but the
interface for weblogging is getting easier and easier. And RSS is a
protocol implemented all over the place. The people that will use what
I'd like to build are not geek, but I think that they can easily grasp
the concept. I know that I could parse myself any html to get this
representation in a web page. But I rather use existing tools.
So, does RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 need to be modified to be able to have
that kind of format. Can the newsreader support easily that kind of
format?
Cheers
-Emmanuel
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