Alright, well, I hit the RSS template motherload today while perusing the MT Blog ring. I ended up at Sean Willson's site (err, blog) and noticed all the pretty feeds. I started to write an email asking for the templates but noticed his post from April 10th. Instead of just grabbing the files, I went over to the Raging Platypus and looked at what his pad housed -- even more.
I thought I was up-to-date and most of these matters (syndication wise), but I have no clue what XFML is. Fortunately, when you look at one of the feeds in action (click one of mine for instance), at the top are a bunch of sites which house either examples or definitions of what the tags/language means. So now I know XFML Core is an open XML format for publishing and sharing hierarchical faceted metadata and indexing efforts. XFML Core is lightweight and easy to implement, yet uniquely powerful. It's also been in development for about a year now (published at least).
A few days back, when I was looking for more templates I came across FOAF - the 'friend of a friend' vocabulary. Not to overload you too much, but they work with the DublinCore metadata/tag guys -- here is a good overview of RSS.
Hehe, and here is some info on ESF - Epistula Syndication Format, It isn't XML. It isn't RDF. It's just data. Quick, reliable, and I'm never going to change the spec in such a way as to break the previous version. I have it output through a .txt and it worked the first time.
I'm still trying to find that one blog that had them all, including excerpts and comments. Until I've done that task I will not be a complete, true, blogger. Note, I'm also not Bobby Compliant either : (
If you know of any RSS MT template that I do not have and you do, please let me know (yea, I got excited and made a couple myself as you can see). Also, in addition to The Plat and Sean's site, check out Dive into Mark, which has great resources on many other topics as well.
Lastly, the RSS 3.0 feed does not work (as an xml). I plugged in the code and it doesn't like any ampersands within my posts. Once I went through and changed those it decided to not like 'line 1, place 1' and I have no clue where to go from there. Oh, and RSS 3.0 is still sorta not-standard. I remember reading something by some bloggers and Aaron Swartz (the Google Blog fella and co-author of the RDF standard) has weighed in. I also shot an email to Sean and The Plat to see if we can't get this to work. Note: If you change the output to a .txt extension it works for now... I wonder if that's the long-term plan.
Help me RSS Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Posted by Tim at April 15, 2003 12:20 AM | TrackBack