Jim, Categories for items in our RSS feeds is a great idea an we are currently looking at the work that would be involved in adding some category information to items within the RSS feeds for News and Sport, so watch this space.
However I am afraid to say that you may be a little disappointed by our basic categorisation model in News and Sport which effectively means that our stories only have one category. The positioning of stories on the page (and what that might mean in terms of importance) is an interesting idea and I can see how it would be extremely useful, but I suspect this would be much harder to implement in any meaningful way if was to work for the large variety of index pages we have on our sites e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/photo_gallerie s/default.stm However if you would like to make some suggestions we'd be pleased to hear from you, Joel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: 20 October 2005 11:14 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] RSS Feeds wish list Hi, Part of optional elements for RSS 'items' is 'category', is it possible to include this in the feeds? Adding something like <category>entertainment / celebrity</category> or <category>technology / internet</category> would be a great addition for allowing easy seperation of data. Basing it on the title tag or the feed URL is possible but it's clunky and the category headings are limited to main sections where I imagine the BBC has multiple category fields in order that the CMS can find related items..? Whilst im at it, what are the chances of adding in the position of an article on the site? For instance, there are 3 main sections to a page, main article, 4 high profile articles and multiple one liners. This kind of thing can really help determine the "importance" of the article in question. Jim. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
