Re: Syndicating static content

I don't see a problem really including the update in the other 
RSS stream.

More generally, however, RSS was not designed to syndicate changes to
static content - but rather to syndicate new additions to streams of
content like news, journals and now podcasting.

For static content syndication memeio-xml is a schema that my memeio
project has just released to solve exactly this problem - you can find
out about it at:

   http://xml.memeio.org/

Steven
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Julian Bond wrote ..
> I've recently hit an issue where I want to syndicate the relatively 
> static content from one website into a page on another. The specific 
> instance is an About Me page on a private site into the Profile page on
> YASN.
> 
> Now if this was rapidly changing content such as blog entries I'd use 
> RSS but in this case the source might change once every couple of months
> if that. And I want to do it in a generic way so I can apply it to 
> several external sites.
> 
> The old way would be to use an Iframe but that's horribly 1997. I'm 
> tempted to go back to the sites and recommend that they produce a static
> RSS feed of that page. But perhaps if they have valid XHTML, I could 
> just tell them to put a tag marker at the start and end of the content
> to be syndicated so I don't get all their header, footer and branding.
> Then all the user has to tell me is the URL of the about page. This 
> feels like it has echoes in the current work on microcontent.
> 
> But, but, there's probably structured data on that page and just taking
> the xhtml expression (and stripping unwanted html tags) loses the 
> structure. So maybe what I'm really saying is that they should give me
> FOAF with the bulk of the xhtml embedded in a bio:full_profile CDATA 
> tag. Except that the bio namespace doesn't have a full_profile tag.
> 
> I'm beginning to ramble here. :) What say you?
> 
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