>I thought the whole point of XML was that you could define your own tags
>and fields. Am I heading down another cul-de-sac here thinking about
>attempting to produce RSS containing fields like Event, Day, Month, Year,
>name, comments instead of the more usual news fields?
Michael,
Currently, there is only one popular aggregator that can make sense of arbitrary XML elements: Newsgator. That situation may (or may not) improve in the future, so counting on a roll-your-own-elements approach probably isn't going to be generally viable.
That means you're down to two choices:
(1) Put the available data in the standard elements, and drop the rest into a CDATA block inside the <description />.
(2) Do some research and see if a supported extension exists that will satisfy your needs. Assuming we're talking RSS 2.0:
Events:
http://www.esfstandard.org/esfspecification0.9draft.html
Day, Month, Year:
<dc:date />
Name:
<dc:creator />
Comments:
<comments />
<wfw:commentsRss />
FWIW, it doesn't sound like the folks on the other end are going to be particularly demanding if they get *something* in the form of RSS... try option #1 and see if they're happy. It's the easiest approach, and will work for just about every aggregator.
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