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Re: "Role of RSS in Science Publishing"


At 07:30 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote:

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.

In practice, this objection is meaningless. There are a number of namespaced modules that are used in RSS 2.0, and most aggregators understand them. And the ones that don't bypass them without a problem.

This objection comes up all the time - and while there's a grain of truth to it, it's mostly nonsense

cheers
Bill



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