Re: XML namespace for repurposing RSS elements?

Hey, that's really great! 

(Turns out there were many good responses to my earlier post that I missed because my subscription notifications to this list are not what I thought.  Embarrassing!)

I have some comments regarding the namespace choice: "http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace"

1. The RSS version should probably be included in the namespace URL.

2. The year 2009 perhaps should be included in the namespace URL to mitigate the fact that ownership of domain names changes hands and URLs may get repurposed.  I think what you want is a namespace that will be globally unique forever--even if there is no document hosted there in the future.  Using the year helps out future owners of the domain.

Some real-world examples:

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom
http://xml.apache.org/xmlbeans/2004/02/xbean/config

(Though there are plenty of counter examples!)

For these reasons, I believe a better namespace URL is something like:

http://www.rssboard.org/2009/rss2.0

But at least:

http://www.rssboard.org/rss2.0-namespace

Thanks for all this!

I read the draft at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace and it looks good.    


Cheers,

Mason
http://masonlee.org


--- In [email protected], Rogers Cadenhead <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>
> Randy Charles Morin and I have been working on draft documentation for an
> RSS namespace.
> Here's a link to it:
> 
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace
> 
> As the docs state, it has not been approved by the board yet and is offered
> for discussion purposes only. We'd love to get feedback on it.
> 
> If anyone has one or two more examples of how RSS could be used in another
> XML dialect, that would be helpful.
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>



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