Re: [syndication] Is a Feed the right place for your Data?

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> writes:

> On Friday, Nov 7, 2003, at 15:32 Europe/Helsinki, Dave Winer wrote:
> 
> > This isn't for aggregators, but if I wanted to load my weblog into
> > another program, I could just loop over all the days and get the
> > RSS data. It's a data interchange format.
> 
> That problem could be solved with (X)HTML alone without a feed
> format. A system could offer the content as one entry per URL as
> chromeless (X)HTML with <link rel="next" ...> for iterating through
> the entries.
> 
> In fact, a feed could be a <link>ed list of (X)HTML documents that
> can be reached from a known URL as /latest.

Very true.

The distinction I see is that a super-simple feed/summary format
provides an efficient index so that one or two hundred complete pages
don't need to be fetched to populate a new "site folder" in a
reader/aggregator.

  -- Ken "on a roll now" MacLeod