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October 13, 2003
RSS-Data
RSS-Data: eWeek has picked up on that discussion started by Jeremy Allaire last week. I kept quiet last week 'cause I didn't get it, but in this article people seem to be seeing it as different things too... some descriptions seem to be of "rich" binary (?) data in an RSS stream... some seem to be ways for non-Usnet "news readers" to do something with arbitrary XML data... one says RSS-Data would serialize RSS content (!?)... then there's emphasis on the transport mechanism with "let's get rid of SOAP"... another observer seems to think of it as adding new node types to an RSS snippet ("movie times for your 'news reader'", eg)... closest I've got to a "What problem does it solve?" is this quote from Jeremy's original entry: "What's needed is a simple data language that can enhance RSS 2.0 applications, expanding it's role into a much broader range of data-oriented applications, rather than it's current, predominant focus on news and content-oriented applications", which still doesn't tell me what problem it's trying to solve. In my gut I'm wondering if people are trying to do to RSS subscription clients what was done to email ten years ago, by trying to duplicate HTML instead of just link to HTML. Anybody got a defendable one-sentence summary of the concrete advantages someone could experience through this plan? Thanks.
Posted by John Dowdell at October 13, 2003 4:57 PM