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

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

On Dec 13, 2003, at 4:07 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Bruce D'Arcus writes:
>> 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.
>
> And, add a type and xml:lang attribute? Seems to make sense to me.

Here's an example of Atom where it stands now.  Might be worth looking 
at some more.  Files at:

http://tbray.org/ongoing/pie/0.2/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed version="0.2" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">
   <!-- required elements -->
   <title>dive into mark</title>
   <link>http://diveintomark.org/</link>
   <modified>2003-08-05T12:29:29Z</modified>
   <!-- optional elements -->
   <tagline>A lot of effort went into making this effortless</tagline>
   <id>tag:diveintomark.org,2003:3</id>
   <generator name="Movable 
Type">http://www.movabletype./org/?v=2.64</generator>
   <copyright>Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim</copyright>

   <entry>
     <!-- required elements -->
     <title>Atom 0.2 snapshot</title>
     <link>http://diveintomark.org/2003/08/05/atom02</link>
     <id>tag:diveintomark.org,2003:3.2397</id>
     <issued>2003-08-05T08:29:29-04:00</issued>
     <modified>2003-08-05T18:30:02Z</modified>
     <!-- optional elements -->
     <created>2003-08-05T12:29:29Z</created>
     <summary>The Atom 0.2 snapshot is out.  Here are some sample 
feeds.</summary>
     <author>
       <name>Mark Pilgrim</name>
       <url>http://diveintomark.org/</url>
       <email>f8...@ex...</email>
     </author>
     <contributor>
       <name>Sam Ruby</name>
       <url>http://intertwingly.net/blog/</url>
       <email>ru...@ex...</email>
     </contributor>
     <contributor>
       <name>Joe Gregorio</name>
       <url>http://bitworking.org/</url>
       <email>jo...@ex...</email>
     </contributor>
     <content type="application/xhtml+xml" mode="xml" xml:lang="en-us">
       <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
         <p>The Atom 0.2 snapshot is out.  Changes from the <a 
href="http://intertwingly.net/foo.html">0.1 snapshot</a>:</p>
         <ol>
           <li>MAY contain <code>feed/copyright</code>.  Free-form 
copyright statement that applies to the feed (XXX more here).  Datatype 
is &lt;xsd:string&gt;.  If present, MUST NOT be blank.</li>
           <li>
             <p>MAY contain <code>feed/generator</code>.  Datatype is 
&lt;xsd:string&gt;.  If present, MUST be full URI and SHOULD point to 
the home page of the program which generated the feed.</p>
             <p>Has optional <code>@name</code> attribute, whose 
datatype is also &lt;xsd:string&gt;.  If present, @name MUST NOT be 
blank.</p>
           </li>
           <li>several other changes not listed here</li>
         </ol>
       </div>
     </content>
   </entry>
</feed>