Re: Syndication - which standard to use

["Alan Karben" <alan@karben14.com>]

RSS, as this group can tell you, is a lightweight, super-well-
implemented way to structure a simple package of stories. Tools 
abound to get the titles of those stories, plus their summaries and 
URLs, and ship those to and fro, make those links show up in 
interesting ways.

NewsML is also a packaging format, but is much more intense. It's 
good for putting together a package of related content where you 
want to differentiate the sidebar from the main piece, and the 
thumbnail from the web graphic from the hi-res print graphic, etc. 
Plus you want all the metadata for all those objects (company 
tickers, people-IDs, authors, event IDs) bubbled up front, and 
consistent. Companies are writing newswire editorial systems using 
NewsML metastructures.

Another standard, NITF, is great for structuring an article in XML. 
It's not a packager of pointers, like RSS, but is instead a platform-
independent representation of what's being pointed *to* (if that 
thing is a news article, perhaps with some photo or multimedia 
references).

If you have further questions on these latter two, send me an email. 
I'm the current editor of NITF, and a founding chair of NewsML. Or 
visit nitf.org / newsml.org

Best of luck with the project!

Alan.
alan -at- karben14 -dot- com


--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Aner" <contsyn@w...> wrote:
> Hi there !
> 
> I am on writing a Content Management System using PHP. I do also 
want to
> have the ability to share content with others. So I decided to use 
XML
> for this.
> 
> When searching the Web for XML-standards I found RSS, NewsML, ICE 
and
> others. These three standards seem to be the most popular.
> 
> I think ICE will not be implmentable, because it is based on HTTP-
Post.
> PHP does
> not offer any ServerSockets or something like networking-streams, 
so
> that I think
> the ICE-Protocol will not implementable. Am I right with this 
oppinion
> or does any
> one know a PHP-based Implementation of ICE.
> 
> Maybe I should implement RSS or NewsML. Can anyone tell me the
> differences
> between these two standards. As far as I read about them, each of 
them
> is to
> exchange links to news-feeds. Am I right with this impression ?
> 
> Thx in advance,
> 
> Paul