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--- In [email protected], Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@g...> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:55:42 +0100, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <yahoo@g...>
wrote:
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> > Well, why should the "simple" xml crowd choose RSS 1.0 anyway?
>
> Because it's (out) there - most desktop aggregators do support RSS
> 1.0, many publishers too, even if there's no general RDF in sight. I
> suspect this is declining though, following an astonishing amount of
> publicity for RSS 2.0 and Atom and, well, practically zero for RSS
> 1.0. As a lot of this data is already being published/consumed, it
> would be nice to make good use of it (IMHO).
That's why RSS 1.0 should capitalize on its main advantage - being
RDF-based. It should not try to be as simple as possible - this is the
way RSS 2.0 have chosen. It should try to be as powerful and flexible
as possible. RSS feeds are intended for machine processing.
Readability should not be main goal. THen, people who need to publish
complex structured information will look towards RSS 1.0.
This way, I think RSS 1.0 should not be shy to use full power of
RDF. Trying to handle RSS 1.0 feeds as XML data by imposing RDF
serialization constraints is not right approach, IMHO.
Sincerely,
Vadim
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