Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

* secou <[email protected]> [2009-02-02 16:30]:
> RSS is an XML dialect.

“RSS is an XML vocabulary.”

> It can handle external namespaces declared by "xmlns"
> attributes.

“It can incorporate other vocabularies if they have a namespace.
Namespaces must be declared with `xmlns` attributes.”

> But, hum, do you consider RSS as "namespace" in itself? Or is
> it incorrect to use this word.

No. Yes.

> In fact, I try to explain "namespace", in an RSS/Atom and
> modules/extensions view, describing it as a group of elements
> all possibly used in a specific goal, and needing to be
> declared to avoid polysemic confusion.
>
> But how would you explain that RSS is a namespace... but that
> you don't have to declare it the usual way...  (with "xmlns") ?
> Is the "<rss version=2.0>... </rss>" section enough to say that
> the RSS namespace is the basic namespace I the newsfeed ?

See above.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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