On Mar 11, 2009, at 14:14 , SUZANNE Benoit RD-SIRP-ISS wrote:
I do not consider the following as a formal format proposition but
as an input to open the discussion as it should probably be written
in atom instead of RSS.
Yes, and it should introduce as few new elements as possible. Off the
top of my head:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xml:lang="en">
<title>Cool Widgets</title>
<subtitle>For Your Phone</subtitle>
<link href="http://example.org/widgets/feed"; rel="self"/>
<link href="http://example.org/widgets/"/>
<updated>1997-03-15T00:05:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kjetil Dahut</name>
<email>k...@example.com</email>
</author>
<id>urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b91C-0003939e0af6</id>
<entry>
<title>W3C LC Comment Generator</title>
<link rel="enclosure" href="http://example.org/1997/03/15/
lcgen.wgt" type='application/widget'/>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.org/1997/03/15/about-lcgen.html
"/>
<link rel="http://w3.org/rel/screenshot"; href="http://example.org/1997/03/15/lcgen01.jpg
"/>
<id>http://example.org/1997/03/15/lcgen.wgt</id>
<updated>1997-03-15T00:05:42Z</updated>
<summary>To make handling those pesky groups easier.</summary>
<category term='web' label='Web Tools'/>
<author><name>BjörnH</name></author>
</entry>
</feed>
Of note:
- the only extension to the base format is minting a new rel IRI
for screenshots;
- I don't think we want anything describing the platform, this is
for W3C Widgets (and platform description would need something more
powerful than just a string anyway);
- category as a number is meaningless to users, using a tag plus a
label is probably better;
- I don't see the use case for including a version here (that's for
the Update spec);
- I'm not convinced that there is strong value in supporting
download statistics and ratings;
- there is probably some variant on the @rel that might have better
semantics;
- language has to be an ISO code.
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