Howdy, Welcome to the RSS-DEV mailing list, home of a working group for the further development of RSS ("RDF Site Summary"). Abstract ... RSS ("RDF Site...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 14, 2000 8:18 pm
A few questions: How was the spec developed? Was it done through email discussion between the authors? If so, why did you choose this route, instead of a more...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 14, 2000 8:52 pm
I'd like to propose the following additional module to the spec. Feedback and comments are of course welcome, if there is support for the module I'd appreciate...
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rss-dev@egroups.com
Aug 14, 2000 9:45 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the rss-dev group. File :...
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Jonathan Eisenzopf
eisen@...
Aug 14, 2000 9:54 pm
Just uploaded a new release of the XML::RSS module for review before I post it to CPAN. Feedback would be appreciated. -- Jonathan Eisenzopf |...
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rss-dev@egroups.com
Aug 14, 2000 9:57 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the rss-dev group. File :...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 14, 2000 10:02 pm
... The readme file doesn't seem to be updated (it still says version 0.8) but it's great to see support for RSS 1.0 so quickly! Since (I would guess) a large...
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Edd Dumbill
edd@...
Aug 14, 2000 10:15 pm
... Rael will correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think the spec is at the stage where implementation in earnest is invited in order to iron out the final bits...
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Rael Dornfest
rael@...
Aug 14, 2000 10:21 pm
Howdy, ... Yes indeed. Meerkat, our Web-based syndicated content reader, already provides an feed conformant with the RSS 1.0 proposal and sporting some ...
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Gabe Beged-Dov
begeddov@...
Aug 15, 2000 2:25 am
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the quick proposal. I'm only responding to the RDF related aspects. I think that adding a content module to RSS1 is a great area to push...
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Jonathan Eisenzopf
eisen@...
Aug 15, 2000 2:33 am
... Thx. Will fix. -- Jonathan Eisenzopf | http://motherofperl.com eisen@... | http://perlxml.com Perl Hacker | http://dc.pm.org...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 3:00 am
... No problem, I've been thinking about creating an all new format like it for a while, and slipping it into RSS seemed like the perfect opportunity. ... ...
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Jonathan Eisenzopf
eisen@...
Aug 15, 2000 3:12 am
... We've already received support from publishers and aggrigators. The first version has been released and is stable. We are using RSS 0.9 as a base, which...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 3:21 am
... OK, so this brings up the questions I had in my other email: Who wrote this spec? How did they get chosen? How did they write it? Will transcripts of that...
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Rael Dornfest
rael@...
Aug 15, 2000 3:42 am
R.V. Guha has released RSS2RDF, an on-the-fly translator from RSS 0.9 or 0.91 to RSS 1.0 -- as defined by the proposed specification at: ...
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Gabe Beged-Dov
begeddov@...
Aug 15, 2000 3:57 am
... content sounds like a reasonable interim name. ... There are various ways to think about RDF. Trying to visualize the directed labeled graph is one good...
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Rael Dornfest
rael@...
Aug 15, 2000 5:57 am
Howdy, Aaron. ... I'll take your questions as an opportunity to provide a little background for those just joining us. You probably recall much of the back and...
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Eric van der Vlist
vdv@...
Aug 15, 2000 1:14 pm
Hi, A set of XSLT stylesheets is available on 4xt to translate RSS 0.9 and 0.9.1 documents into the recently announced RSS 1.0 format, together with Java...
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Jonathan Eisenzopf
eisen@...
Aug 15, 2000 1:46 pm
... The authors are listed in the spec. ... There was never a choosing really. It was a group of RSS and XML experts. ... We email discussions that convered...
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Gabe Beged-Dov
begeddov@...
Aug 15, 2000 2:40 pm
Hi Eric, Thanks for the great tools. I looked at the output example and there are a few diffs from the spec. You list the namespace for rss091 as ...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 6:04 pm
... OK, if there was ever a spec fraught with politics, it's probably RSS. This, along with the comments from Rael pretty much explain everything. Thanks. I ...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 6:26 pm
... I think both would be useful. ... How does deprecation affect backward compatibility? While I appreciate the work done to make sure 1.0 is backward...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 7:17 pm
... I've been playing around with this in SiRPAC and it looks like the best solution. Thanks for your help! Another XMLNS-newbie question: If I want to be able...
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David King
david.king@...
Aug 15, 2000 7:41 pm
... When a date is needed anywhere in RSS 1.0, I would urge that a format such as the one in RFC 822 _not_ be used. It is notoriously annoying to parse....
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 15, 2000 7:47 pm
... UNIX timestamp is fine with me, it's the standard format for the language I use (Tcl). I only suggested RFC 822 for consistency, but you bring up a good ...
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Edd Dumbill
edd@...
Aug 15, 2000 8:03 pm
... http://www.uic.edu/year2000/datefmt.html ISO 8601 is the right format for dates -- Edd...
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Rael Dornfest
rael@...
Aug 15, 2000 8:35 pm
Howdy, This was in keeping with the examples in the 0.91 spec[1] for backward compatibility in the RSS091 module. All examples in the 1.0 proposal, however,...
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Dan Brickley
daniel.brickley@...
Aug 15, 2000 8:43 pm
... There's a W3C Note describing a profile of 8601 which might be a good fit for us here. http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime Abstract This document defines a...
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Rael Dornfest
rael@...
Aug 15, 2000 8:46 pm
Hi, Just fiddling a bit with some more tools :-) I uploaded a DTML Method file[1] for the Zope-based[2] Squishdot[3] discussion forum product. The method...
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David King
david.king@...
Aug 15, 2000 8:58 pm
... I'm assuming we will have 64-bit ints by then so overflowing would be a non-issue (right?). A good point to bring up none-the-less. ... The reason I...
