[Refdb-users] xnotes and blogs (another take)

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Was just looking at the new weblog standard Atom and been struck by how 
closely this resembles xnote.

<entry
     xmlns="http://example.com/newformat#"
     xmlns:lj="some.lj.example.com/namespace/" >
     <title>My First Entry</title>
     <subtitle>In which a newbie learns to blog...</subtitle>
     <summary>A very boring entry...</summary>
     <author>
       <name>Bob B. Bobbington</name>
       <homepage>http://bob.name/</homepage>
       <weblog>http://bob.blog/</weblog>
     </author>
     <issued>2003-02-05T12:29:29</issued>
     <lj:mood>happy</lj:mood>
     <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en-us">
       <p xmlns="...">Hello, <em>weblog</em> world! 2 &lt; 4!</p>
     </content>
</entry>

I suggested this to Markus privately as an alternative:

Keep the current structure, but rename "note" to "content," which makes 
it all more consistent with RDF, Atom, etc.

Note, the above example is from an article on Atom extensibility.

http://bitworking.org/news/Extending_the_AtomAPI

I keep thinking there might be opportunities for the intersection of 
bib metadata and weblog stuff.  A weblog post is just a publicly 
distributed metadata-attached note, after all, and bibliographic 
metadata is simply more detailed than that which is typically 
associated with weblogs.

Bruce