Re: [Slashcode-development] RSS 1.0

[Rael D. <ra...@or...>]

Howdy,

While there are other possible uses being bandied about, for the most part
beyond my ken (search, replication, etc.), the primary history is this...

As you probably know, Slashcode currently affords a Slashsite the ability
to provide an XML document containing the titles and descriptions of
current stories for syndication, like so:

  <item>
    <title>Will Linux Save Microsoft?</title>
    <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/09/1840253</link>
  </item>

This format is known as RSS 0.9.  A newer, more modular version of RSS now
exists, RSS 1.0 (http://purl.org/rss/1.0/), allowing for a) more
information to be disseminated from the Slashcode database and b) modular
extension of the feed to include Slashcode specific data, like so:

 <item rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/09/1840253">
   <title>Will Linux Save Microsoft?</title>
   <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/09/1840253</link>
   <description>
    Chait writes "Check this article out looks interesting! Will Linux
    Save Microsoft? " Its a fairly logical piece, and certainly not saying
    anything that any of us haven't thought about. My opinion has always
    been that as long as the source stays open, I don't care, but it'll
    definitely be interesting to see what happens. 
   </description>
   <dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
   <dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
   <dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
   <dc:date>2000-12-09T12:39</dc:date>
   <dc:format>text/html</dc:format>
   <slash:department>
    as-long-as-they-don't-close-the-source-who-cares?
   </slash:department>
   <slash:comments>301</slash:comments>
 </item>

Now why would you want to do this?

  1. It's incredibly useful to aggregators, websites, et al in order
     to allow the routing of the appropriate stories to the appropriate
     places (read: eyeballs).  This brings the Slashsite more hits from
     more folks who would be the most interested.

  2. For searches, replication, and countless other data-sharing
     reasons, bith intra- and inter-site.

  3. Why not provide all the information at your disposal -- at least
     the bits you don't mind sharing?  

I hope this helps.

Rael

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 con...@ho... wrote:

> i just got on the list. mind giving me a little history on this request so i
> can get my mind cranking in the right direction?
> 
> ciao,
> k
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Nandor" <pu...@po...>
> To: <sla...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:17 AM
> Subject: [Slashcode-development] RSS 1.0
> 
> 
> > OK, here is a list of the data for stories that we have available,
> > that we might want to put in to RSS 1.0 files.  I listed pretty much
> > all the data for stories, and just a few things for site.  Comments
> > welcome.
> >
> > The purpose of this is to put these items into available RSS fields,
> > either in the RSS core in Dublin Core, or in our own Slash XML module.
> >
> > From here, we could then move on to defining fields for comments
> > and users, and any other data we want to search on, for the purpose
> > of returning search data to users and to any other searches we want
> > to enable.

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