Better would be to figure out how to do the right thing. The URI associated
with a DTD is not a locator, it's a namespace. It distinguishes this DTD
from all others. The parser should be able to resolve the DTD locally. After
all, the internet makes a really poor filesystem. The fact that Netscape
stopped putting a document at the same URL as the URI for RSS 0.91 should
not break anything.
Should Apache publish DTDs? Fine, why not. Should the rest of the world
depend on a physical representation of a DTD be available at a
jakarta.apache.org URL? The Netscape experience says no.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Santiago Gala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RSS problems
>
>
> 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 :) )
>
> Comments?
>
>
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