Re: Re: How to encode comments in a hierarchical manner?

Unless I am missing the point, the Atom Threading Extension (RFC 4685) 
can be used to accomplish this. While designed for use with Atom, 
there's no reason that it cannot be used with RSS.

- James

scamden wrote:
>
> Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that either wfw:comment or
> wfw:commentRss answer grishick's original question. He wants a way to
> embed comments within the feed, and provide linkages from child to
> parent comment when threaded.
>
> When I migrated my blogging platform, I was disappointed with the lack
> of any specification for embedding comments directly in a feed, so I
> extended RSS with my own namespace to include that. At the time,
> though, I didn't have threaded comments, so I didn't include that in
> my grammar. It seems like a completely unanswered question (unless
> I'm failing to see a big elephant in the room).
>
> --- In [email protected] 
> <mailto:rss-public%40yahoogroups.com>, Gregory Solovyev <grishick@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Randy, looks like wfw:commentRss addresses this need:
> http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/ 
> <http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/>
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Randy Morin <randy@...>
> > To: [email protected] <mailto:rss-public%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:30:49 PM
> > Subject: [rss-public] Re: How to encode comments in a hierarchical
> manner?
> >
> >
> > The most common implementation of what you are looking for is
> Comment
> > API
> > http://www.google. com/search? q=+site:wellform edweb.org+
> comment+api
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Randy
> > http://www.thersswe blog.com
> >
> > --- In rss-public@yahoogro ups.com, "grishick" <grishick@ .> wrote:
> > >
> > > Many blog platforms allow to post a comment as a response to
> another
> > > comment. Is there a way to encode the hierarchy of responses in
> RSS?
> > > From what I can see RSS2 only has <comments> element that points
> to a
> > > page with comments. But it seems to be useful to have a <comment>
> > > element with the ability to include another <comment> element
> within a
> > > comment element, or to be able to include a reference to the
> parent
> > > <comment> element.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>  

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