How about adopting OpenSearch response? http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#OpenSearch_response_elements
In fact, how about simply adopting OpenSearch in its entirety?
Jon
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03/11/2009 08:10 Re: [Widgets] Widget Gallery RSS
AM like sharing format
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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