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Discussion of an RSS profile
FOR REVIEW ONLY. THIS IS A DRAFT. DO NOT DEPLOY. The largest number of RSS feeds seem to come from SixApart and UserLand, with important feeds coming from others. At some point Blogger may offer feeds from non-paying sites, and of course at that point will have a substantial number of feeds. My goal is to try to first get UserLand and SixApart to work together to produce feeds, by default, that are very close to each other, if not identical -- without any breakage in the aggregators. At any point people from Blogger would be welcome in the process. I'm going to look for ideas from others, but only insofar as they promote the idea of these three groups working together. Disclaimer  This document is fluid and either or both parties may have missed important limits, and no commitment is made at this time to supporting the profile in discussion. What to call it? RSS for Weblogs or RSS/FW. I like it because FW sounds like "forward," and of course that's where we want to go.  Points of agreement? The basis for interop is RSS 2.0. Preference goes to core elements. In other words, if there is an element defined in the core spec that is equivalent to one defined in a namespace, the core element is the one we use. The profile should include comments, categories, trackback information. Only namespaces specifically permitted by the profile are allowed. TBD: Deal with relative links somehow. UserLand comments SixApart says that internationalization should be provided for in the profile. UserLand says that is handled well at the XML level. UserLand says that channel-level language, lastBuildDate, docs, generator are no-brainers and should not be optional in the profile. cloud, skipHours, managingEditor, webMaster, copyright, pubDate are optional. UserLand says that item-level pubDate and guid should be required; author, comments, category, enclosure, source optional. References Initial post on Scripting News, 5/10/03. Response from Ben Trott, 5/10/03.
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