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Re: "Role of RSS in Science Publishing"

To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: "Role of RSS in Science Publishing"
From: Bill de hÓra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:30:07 +0000
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Danny Ayers wrote:

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:49:54 -0500, Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wasn't aware that RSS2 and Atom aren't extensible!

Does RSS 2.0 allow addition of new features? Well yes, if you wheel in the XML namespaces layer and simultaneous knock out the "Simple" of syntax that caused the old fork. Was it designed for this? I reckon that's pushing it a little.

It certainly does depend on your definition of extensible. Saying RSS2.0 is extensible because I can drop in namespaced blocks is like saying my copy of the K&R is extensible because I can write notes in the margins.

cheers
Bill

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