On 3 May 2007, at 18:27, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
On 2 May 2007, at 16:53, James M Snell wrote:
The meaning is application dependent. For instance, Lotus
Connections
uses a category scheme value "http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/
type",
which when used with a set of specific terms (e.g. "message",
"bookmark", "chat", etc) has a very specific meaning in the Lotus
Connections product.
If it's application specific, I assume the attribute itself has no
semantics. I fail to see how this is useful for aggregators
whatsoever,
as its content could mean almost anything. Application specific
things
should probably be left to namespaces where attributes can be defined
with actual semantics.
It may be worthless to aggregators but a powerful attribute for
applications that are built atop APP. Imagines a CMS that uses APP to
perform its operations, the scheme could denote different meaning
within
the context of the CMS.
You could also imagine an automated service that "converses" with
an APP
service. This automation could give a specific meaning to the scheme
attribute again.
APP goes way beyond the aggregators-space.
Surely it would therefore be defined in APP then, not the syndication
format?
- Geoffrey Sneddon
