Re: New on RSS 1.0 - need some help!!!

Hi Teresa,

Your questions below are basically answered on the home page of this
YahooGroup : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/

> I am new on this group and I am also new on the "RSS feed".

Welcome aboard!  :-)

> I am trying to use RSS 1.0 to describe articles from a specific
> repository. In each item description I'm using metadata from the
> Dublin Core, from the Qualified Dublin Core, and from the Prism
> vocabulary.

I was not aware of the PRISM standard, but now that I have glanced at
it, I am interested in it. So interested in it, that I will integrate
it into my own RDF/RSS-based standards .. today!  :-)

> I wanted to ask if in my item description I can add elements
> from the Prism vocabulary through the definition of the 
> Prism namespace ...

Yes, this is how RDF works, e.g. include namespace declaration then
use the elements provided by this namespace, throughout the document.

> Or I just can use elements from 
> vocabularies which have modules defined?

Clearly it is better when the module is defined (Schema, etc.), but I
think RDF/RSS parsers/interpreters can handle the XML without NEEDING
the Schema|etc. The latter are for validating the well-formed-ness of
XML documents, verifying the semantics, and so on, and so on. Good to
have but NOT-obligatory.

> An RDF/XML document it conforms an RSS application?

Yes.

> And how can I subscribe to a channel?

Use an RSS/RDF-Reader[s] and/or RSS/RDF-Aggregator[s]. There are MANY
on the market, MANY are free opensource wares. Many *existing* wares,
such as web-browsers, are increasingly integrating these functions in
to their product[s]. In MicroSoft's upcoming platform[s], RSS/RDF is
at the center of everything! Anyways.. getting back to your question,
you use a reader/aggregator to subscribe to a channel. This can be as
easy as using your current web-browser w/o a plugin for channels.

> Can anyone give me some help?
> Thanks in advance.
> Kind regards,
> Teresa

I am just a step or two above "Beginner", but I'm catching-on really
quick... probably because of my extensive experience in HTML coding,
CSS, basic XML ... and because this RDF-stuff is rather easy to get,
once you get passed the initial 'shock' of its apparent bloated-ness.
As for me, I hand-code the RDF *once*, transform this into scripts in
 a easy-to-use IDE, which in turn will forever-after generate the RDF
*for* me. :-))

Hey! we might want to trade notes during our respective work on PRISM
in RDF/RSS... help each other... learn from each other. But there has
to be enough *reciprocity* to make it interesting for the BOTH of us.

Nice to meet you,  :-)

Alain F








 
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