XSS—Extremely Simple Syndication
Proposal for Extremely Simple Syndication (XSS), a profile (a restricted subset) of RSS 2.0, proposed by Tim Appnel (tima) [pointer from Mark Pilgrim]. This is the same acronym as I timidly suggested for the successor to RSS 0.92. I had started on something I was going to call XSS myself, but tima’s is headed in the same direction, so I should probably just withdraw my inchoate drafts to prevent any confusion...
I had started drafting a proposal myself, but in the end I don’t have time to do it properly (my evenings at home should be spent on the CAPTION web-site...). Oh, well. Excuses, excuses.
On the subject of things I don’t have time to do: Lars Marius Garshol points to a treatment of RSS data in AsTMa=. (AsTMa= is a linear notation for Topic Maps). I would like to do a proper treatment of interoperable syndication data in topic-map format, but, again, no time...
Dave Whiner asks that people not use variations on the white-on-orange XML icon (used to link to RSS data). So I have changed the link on my pages to use the ‘standard’ image.