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Dave Winer wrote: > 6/20/99: A collection of scripts, in Frontier, Java, AppleScript, Perl, Cold > Fusion, PHP and Tcl, that produce a ScriptingNews 2.0b1 format syndication > file from a plain text format that's easy for writers to work with. > > http://my.userland.com/stories/storyReader$14 > > RSS and ScriptingNews format are evolving to a single format, so as we go > forward, we'll update this page with more scripts in many popular languages > that can be used to manage XML-based content from plain text. This is key as > syndication goes forward, you should work in a "meta-meta" format, because > there will always be new "standards". That's the way this stuff works! > Er, ok. Who is we? Is there a group mothering this? I believe that generating XML headlines from plain text should only be used to help people in the transition from plain text to XML. If writers are seriously opposed to writing raw XML, give them a tool with "fill in the blanks" functionality. Converting to XML from plain text is not such a big deal for a simple format like RSS, but stepping up to something like XMLNews would be rediculous. Also, I'm glad you brought up the RSS vs. ScriptingNews format. I've been somewhat irritated at Netscape's lack of support for RSS. There is a blurb of possible future directions, however, I'm not convinced it will be worth waiting for. BTW, I did, in fact, look at the ScriptingNews format. While it is a step forward, it won't stand up to the requirements of basic news syndication. I think we need to be preparing for the scenario where information is distributed on syndicated networks or feeds. I believe XMLNews or the NITF standard is a more appropriate format for distributing news (see http://www.xmlnews.org). Since I am in agreement with you that I should be focusing on a "meta-meta" format, I am exploring the possibility of using and extending XMLNews-Meta as a replacement for RSS. I provided the XML::RSS Perl module as a convenience to those who are currently using RSS to create and distrubute news headlines, as well as read and display them on the Web. I'd be interested to hear what others on this list are thinking along these lines. Is there a better alternative to RSS and ScriptingNews besides XMLNews? Jonathan. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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