* James Holderness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-07 01:10]:
> Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>> As a publisher, yes. For authors of clients, particularly
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> clients intended for a specific purpose, the extent to which
>> other existing clients fail to take advantage of the specified
>> features of the format is of little relevance.
>
> But it *is* relevant - that was my point. It's not much good a
> feed publisher
^^^^^^^^^
Did you read what I wrote? :-)
>> Which is the point. In the cases where it doesn’t apply, RSS
>> offers no way to do it at all. Atom does.
>
> I'm not convinced of that. For example, that DOAP feed you
> posted a while could just as easily be implemented in RSS by
> embedding a doap:Project block as a child of the item element
> with a description element for the summary.
>
> The advantage of Atom is that it makes content like that
> somewhat easier to surface via a feed processing API, but
> ultimately you're still probably going to be writing a custom
> processor to handle the data. There's not much that you just
> get for free.
You get a MIME type. You can do what mail clients do. That’s a
lot for free.
With RSS, all you get is a namespace URI. How useful.
(No client actually takes advantage of this, of course, which
I find baffling in the extreme. The only plausible explanation
I can see is RSS blinders.)
Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
