Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

I think there's two scenarios that exist with RSS vis-a-vis 
namespaces.
-RSS elements in RSS documents
-RSS elements in other XML documents

1. RSS elements in RSS documents

These RSS element are not in a namespace. This inevitably brings 
about debate. Some suggest that there is some sort of null XML 
namespace, but nobody has ever shown me where this is defined. Please 
do call me on this.

2. RSS elements in other XML documents

Nobody has ever made any formal proposal on this. The closest we ever 
came was PSS, which I'm unsure if it was a joke, but Dave Winer never 
moved it forward.
http://www.ibt4im.com/?guid=20030615083037

I think it's time to proposal PSS for adoption by the RSS Advisory 
Board in order to clarify use of RSS in other XML documents.

Thoughts and criticism welcome and wanted.

Randy
http://www.therssweblog.com


--- In [email protected], "secou" <secou@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>  
> I try to be precise in a generic and popularized RSS definition for 
non
> coders. 
> 
> RSS is an XML dialect. It can handle external namespaces declared 
by "xmlns"
> attributes. 
> 
> But, hum, do you consider RSS as "namespace" in itself ? Or is it 
incorrect
> to use this word. 
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> secou
>



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