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Why not use RSS for files.xml?

Author:   Bruce Loebrich  
Posted: 11/25/2002; 4:52:40 PM
Topic: Formats for Blog Browsers
Msg #: 183 (in response to 169)
Prev/Next: 182/184
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Since a blog browser would only need to understand one format instead of two, it seems like there would be an advantage to using RSS for the files.xml file as well. RSS has all the elements necessary to duplicate the functionality contained in the existing format used for files.xml.

Jeremiah Rogers mentions somehow merging RSS archives with outlining. Nested RSS files could give an outline like structure to archives by having different levels for the achive as a whole, its years, months, days or even posts. I've been playing with a primitive version of this concept to create OPML archives of my website.

Mark J. Gardner's third lighting bolt is right on target. With modern browsers, there is no need for standalone HTML pages if an XSLT stylesheet declaration is included in each archive file.


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