RE: RSS 1.1

["Jeremy Gray" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-atom-syntax@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-atom-syntax@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:56 AM
> To: Henry Story
> Cc: Atom WG
> Subject: Re: RSS 1.1
> 
> On 18 Jan 2005, at 4:25 pm, Henry Story wrote:
> 
> >>    http://inamidst.com/rss1.1/guide
> >>    - A Rough Guide to RSS 1.1
> 
> They've removed the required stable identifier (rdf:about) from the 
> entries, which was the main thing RSS 1.0 had going for it.

I have yet to take more than a quick scan through the proposed RSS 1.1
specification, but I too noticed that backwards step. As a proponent of RDF
and of RSS 1.0, I also noticed several other backwards steps* that I'll have
to dig into when I have a bit more time.

(* Even more constraints that make it even less useful to RDF-based systems,
which makes no sense given that non-RDF systems are obviously going to go
with Atom, leaving RSS 1.x in a position to become more RDF-focused, not
less.)
 
> Atom is now the only vaguely sensible format going.

Other than RSS 1.0, of course. :)

Jeremy Gray