As some of you may know already, Netscape has stopped publishing the DTD
for the RSS format version 0.91. (See for instance
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/28/2119211 )
This brings big trouble to Jetspeed, as a good number of publicly
available syndicated channels used this format.
Also, recently xmltree.org stopped publishing a OCS format compilation
of RSS channels, which also reduced the number of independent
information channels available.
I have been thinking lately that Apache could provide users a trustable
point to export information in the form of syndication channels.
This could be done easily:
- a form for users to register the channel URL plus meta information (we
would not accept RSS v0.91 until the situation clarifies)
- a program that would sort using meta information and would publish one
or more OCS feeds including this information.
The ocs feed could be mirrored at will, if it is batch generated
As it is not properly a project, but rather a service including a small
infrastructure project to enable it, I think we can discuss it without
having a code base here.
We have already published a very small ocs feed, including channels for
Jetspeed and other for turbine. A different story would be to update
these and other channels for other projects with the latest development
inf :) )
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