[microformats-discuss] Evaulating RSS per the microformats principles.

Bud Gibson bud at thecommunityengine.com
Sun Aug 14 19:58:43 PDT 2005


On Aug 14, 2005, at 22:08, Stephen Downes wrote:

> Now I should say, I do not consider the formulation given above to  
> be a *micro* format. This is because this is a base into ehich  
> microformats can be embedded.
>
> In RSS (and Atom) we can think of microformats as extensions. For  
> example, RSS allows a Dublin Core extension. Dublin Core is used to  
> specify bibliographic metadata, such as author or publisher.
>

I quite agree with this set of observations.  I think it will be  
easier to go after small things and quite useful.

My question for this type of thing would be, "Can you achieve a  
result with a week or less of solid effort?"  If not, the project  
might be too big.

Bud


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