On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:49:12 +0000, Bill de h�ra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Danny Ayers wrote:
> 
> > Yes and no - there is demand for this kind of thing, is the RSS 1.0
> > community the same as the RDF community? There's a lot of additions
> > around there... Whatever, even with RSS 2.0 there's Easy News Topics
> > and all the stuff associated with media (enclosures + Yahoo's
> > extensions) as good examples.
> 
> Is the RSS1.0 community relevant, given RSS1.1? I'm sincere in asking this.

Dunno really. There are an awful lot of RSS 1.0 feeds out there -
you've got one, I've got one. If rss-dev give the green light to 1.1,
I'll probably changeover before long, though the extensions (FOAF,
Geo) I've got in place aren't likely to change.

> > My concern there is with extension development outside of the RDF
> > community. Without some uniform interpretation of the attributes
> > outside of the context of an Atom document, there's scope for unwanted
> > interactions. Assigning the things global names (URIs), even if they
> > aren't explicitly expressed in Atom documents seems a low cost
> > solution.
> >
> >
> >>>Does this help?
> >>
> >>Yes, but I think it can be dealt with as outlined above, unless I'm
> >>missing something.
> >
> >
> > Non-RDF extensions.
> 
> As I've said, I'm not seeing the demand for uniform evaluation outside
> an RDF context.

Outside of the [insert Brayism about architects], demand for
uniformity is generally thin on the ground around syndication (<guid>s
ring a bell?). But that doesn't reduce its benefits, usually
uniformity leads to a net cost reduction, don't you reckon? Standards
and all that?

Cheers,
Danny.

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