Re: RSS as a pseudo Web Service

Although I take the point which about RSS not being ideal for data 
interchange. There are some good reasons to use RSS over other methods.

1. Its pretty easy to parse and there are many tools to help
2. You can serve 2 or more audiences, so our RSS feed is quite heavy and 
contains information which people can read using a RSS reader or parse 
and use in there own applications.
3. Its very common, so many clients now want RSS over anything else (at 
least thats true in the news market)
4. Enclosures allow for a simple and automated way to collect extra 
content, yes you could run a cron job. But now with a podcatching 
client, extra content can be pulled down by less technical people, in my 
mind this is a good thing.

As mentioned we (BBC World Service) do use RSS 1.0 to deliver news to 
RSS readers, Aggregators and Developers throughout the world.
> As to processing RDF via XSLT you're in for a whole other set of
> adventures...
Can I just ask you to explain this point?

Thanks,

Ian Forrester - Cubicgarden.com


 
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