David Janes wrote: > However, your characterization of hAtom as having a "syndication" > background / being some sort of syndication format is wrong
I'm sure I am being dense... but I thought Atom was all about syndication? Perhaps we have different definitions of what "syndication" means? "S: (n) syndication (selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time) 'he received a comfortable income from the syndication of his work'" [1] "In general, syndication means the distribution a news article through a syndicate - in this case an RSS feed - for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously. Used in the context of RSS because RSS syndication is all about distributing content for reuse or redistribution on other websites." [2] "Created by leading service providers, tool vendors and independent developers, Atom is designed to be a universal publishing standard for personal content and weblogs." [3] Am I confusing syndication with publishing? Are they really that different? > Yes, we > refer to the Atom standard, but as appropriate one is expected to make > the mapping when it talks about "atom feed" to "the content being > marked up with hAtom" -- the same way when reading hCard we know we're > talking about content being marked up with that rather than a block of > vCard text. Please clarify - the above didn't really make any sense to me (I'm not being difficult, I really don't get what you are attempting to say). Are there a large number of examples of hAtom being used for anything else than syndication/blogging/news article publishing? Perhaps your viewpoint can be backed up with some examples that I am unaware of? Who is currently using hAtom for non-syndication/non-blogging/non-news article-based publishing? Please don't use corner-cases! -- manu [1] http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=syndication [2] http://www.rsstoolchest.com/rss-glossary.html [3] http://www.atomenabled.org/ _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
