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

Dear Alain,

Thank you very much for your kind help :)
English is not my birth language and therefore sometimes it is
difficult to understand the exact meaning of a sentence ...

I wanted to ask you something else:
I read in a book that RSS has some restrictions one of them tells that
we can't list multiple subelements of the higher-level item element
and the other one is related to the rdf:parseType attribute.

So please tell me I can have the description of creator like this:

<dc:creator rdf:parseType="Resource">
 <vCard:n>Teresa</vCard:n>
 <vCard:family>pereira</vCard:family>
 <vCard:EMAIL>[email protected]</vCard:EMAIL>
 <vCard:ORG>University of Minho</vCard:ORG>
</dc:creator>

and the description of several subjects, like this:

<dc:subject>
 <rdf:Bag>
  <rdf:li>Information System</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>Management of Information System</rdf:li>
 </rdf:Bag>
</dc:subject>

I know that this is correct in RDF but I have some doubts when I read
the RSS resctrictions. And I also think that does not make much sense
only have one subject...

Alain, once again thank you very much for your precious help.

Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Teresa
--- In [email protected], "Alain Farmer" <alain_farmer@...> wrote:
>
> 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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