Re: RSS as a pseudo Web Service

I'd recommend against it. You're assumedly going to have a server at one end 
that's not going to be an RSS server, a client at the other end that's not 
going to be an RSS client, so why use RSS for the protocol between the two?

If you really think the RSS protocol fits your needs perfectly and you're 
not just stuffing your data into RSS because you don't want to come up with 
a format of your own, at least give it a different top level element so you 
don't run the risk of someone coming across your feed and trying to 
subscribe to it.

IMHO.

Regards
James

bgranam wrote:
> I've been musing about the possibility of using RSS as a kind of
> pseudo Web Service and would like some opinions on the concept.
>
> RSS would be used as a transport layer for arbitrary RDF content
> between two or more computers. The RDF content would not be intended
> for direct display, but would be parsed out with XSLT and fed into
> another program for further processing.
>
> Good, bad, stupid, brilliant? Your thoughts would be appreciated.


 
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