On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
1.) A web forum, where one post serves as the root of a collection of other posts.
HTML-- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bloggerDev/
Atom 0.3, "root" posts only-- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bloggerDev/feed/topics.xml
Atom 0.3, all messages-- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bloggerDev/feed/msgs.xml
Q: Has any previous flavor of RSS had a solution for this?
Potential solutions that occur to me:
1. Ignore the problem 2. PaceEntriesElement could handle this 3. PaceFeedRecursive could handle this 4. PaceAtomHeadInEntry could handle this 5. PaceAggregationDocument could handle this
I honestly can't say which I prefer. Would anyone like to try to put together examples of the solution in #2 through #5 so that we can consider the alternatives?
2.) A Blog w/ comments, where on post serves as the root of a collection
of other posts.
HTML-- http://www.livejournal.com/users/giant_moose/
Atom 0.3, no indication of comments-- http://www.livejournal.com/users/giant_moose/data/atom
Q: Has any previous flavor of RSS had a solution for this? Q: Do we have a proposal on something to handle this?
I believe there is a proposal for a <link rel="comment"> which would do the job.
3.) A "List Status" feed, where the only updates consist of one collection replacing another.
RSS2 -- http://rss.netflix.com/Top100RSS
background info--
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a257ba40-b9fd -4cba-959a-2bba6ae917f0
Q: Has any previous flavor of RSS had a solution for this? Q: Do we have a proposal for something to handle this?
Dare points out that the feed suffers from lack of guids and dates, something that Atom would force them to fix, which would give an aggregator a better chance of doing something useful. -Tim
