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This seems like an easy problem to resolve. Revive the standards body for this protocol. Create a new group that will define the spec and schema, convince other
by monksy 10y ago
This seems like an easy problem to resolve. Revive the standards body for this protocol. Create a new group that will define the spec and schema, convince others to use this and you're good to go. Unless you need to remove elements, it should be pretty simple to expand on what's already there.
To me it doesn't make any sense to bemoan that it is in XML.. so what. It includes a schema and can be validated. That's a good thing. Don't throw json into this.
- initself 10y agoI don't think he bemoans it. He describes how Apple themselves extended the protocol through XML itself towards the end of the article. "Remember that the RSS spec is frozen, meaning that no improvements can be made to it, full stop. That said, RSS documents are written in XML, and XML has a feature called namespaces which can be leveraged to include data from multiple specifications in a single document. This allows one to create new specifications that could be used, not instead of, but in concert with RSS. iTunes did this when they initially added support for podcasts back in 2005, but little movement has happened in the intervening decade."
- firasd 10y agoThat's very naive given the specification in question. Atom was an effort to do this. The process created years of strife. And after all this drama, Facebook took over and RSS/Atom/et al became irrelevant.
- chrisrhoden 10y agoI have to be honest, I find it a little frustrating that you would not spend the estimated 6 minutes it would take you to read a post I spent hours writing before you put me down in a comment.