Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

"scamden" <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:21:22 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@...>
wrote:
>
> * secou secou@... [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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