I guess I’ll start over here at setting up some keys for the new year:
tag:masonlee.org,2010:
tag:telephonographic.net,2010:
tag:borange.com,2010:
tag:textie.me,2010:
This is RFC4151, The “tag” URI Scheme”
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On naming and knowing
December 18, 2009RssCloud Atom Extension
September 11, 2009Status of this Document
Version: 0.92 DRAFT
Editor: Mason Lee <http://masonlee.org>
Updated: 2009-09-23
Change log:
0.92 – 2009-09-23. Updated link to RSS spec.
0.91 – 2009-09-16. Changed namespace proposal to rssboard.org and updated editor’s notes.
0.9 – 2009-09-11. Original proposal and request for comments.
Abstract
This document defines the XML schema for an rssCloud declaration usable in XML formats other than RSS, with specific attention to Atom.
1. Overview
RSS 2.0 specifies an optional <cloud> element that can be used to indicate the rssCloud ping hub for a channel. Because RSS 2.0 has no XML namespace, however, direct reuse of its elements can often be difficult and sometimes impossible. To allow alternative XML publishing formats such as Atom to more easily make use of RssCloud’s ping hub architecture, this document declares an equivalent <rss:cloud> element definition rooted in a URI namespace.
The specification here adopts without modification the original RSS 2.0 <cloud> element base name, attribute names, element structure, and semantics. The rssCloud protocol is not modified here except perhaps indirectly by the implication that rssCloud hubs may forward update pings for resources other than RSS.
1.1. References
“RSS 2.0” is defined at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html.
The “rssCloud” protocol is described at http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html. EDITOR’S NOTE: What’s the best link for this?
“Atom” is defined at http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html.
2. Technical Specification
2.1. Namespace
The XML namespace URI for the XML data described in this specification is:
EDITOR’S NOTE: **This is not an approved URL- do not use.**. Rssboard.org has been discussing the creation of a namespace for RSS. Above is my suggestion. Waiting on feedback from them as to what and when an official namespace might be.
2.2. Namespaced rssCloud XML Publisher’s Schema
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="http://rssboard.org/2009/xsd/rss2.0"
elementFormDefault="qualified"
attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
version="0.9">
<xs:element name="cloud">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>Specifies a web service that supports the rssCloud interface which can be implemented in HTTP-POST, XML-RPC or SOAP 1.1. Its purpose is to allow processes to register with a cloud to be notified of updates to the channel, implementing a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol for XML resources.</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:attribute name="domain" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="port" type="xs:positiveInteger" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="path" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="registerProcedure" type="xs:string"
use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="protocol" use="required"/>
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:enumeration value="xml-rpc"/>
<xs:enumeration value="http-post"/>
<xs:enumeration value="soap"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:attribute>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
2.3. Use in Atom
Implementer MAY use one or more of the above namespaced <cloud> elements directly inside the <atom:feed> element.
2.4. Use in RSS
Implementer SHOULD use the existing non-namespaced RSS <cloud> element in RSS rather than this extension.
3. Examples
3.1. Atom Example
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:rss="http://rssboard.org/2009/xsd/rss2.0">
<rss:cloud domain="example.com" port="80"
path="/?rsscloud=notify" registerProcedure=""
protocol="http-post"/>
<title>Example Feed</title>
<link href="http://example.org/feed/" rel="self" />
<link href="http://example.org/" />
<id>urn:uuid:8f8f8f8f-adad-face-090909090909</id>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Doe</name>
<email>johndoe@example.com</email>
</author>
<entry>
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title>
<link href="http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03" />
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<summary>Some text.</summary>
</entry>
</feed>
EDITOR’S NOTE: Comments most welcome! –Mason
Stimulating Concepts of Commerce
December 1, 2008Below, from “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, Ignatius J. Reilly takes business into his own hands and forges a response to Abelman’s Dry Goods.
Abelman’s Dry Goods
Kansas City, Missouri
U.S.A.
Mr. I. Abelman, Mongoloid, Esq.:
We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our full knowledge that they were inadequate so far as length was concerned.
“Why? Why?” You are, in your incomprehensible babble, unable to assimilate stimulating concepts of commerce into your retarded and blighted worldview. The trousers were sent to you (1) as a means of testing your initiative (A clever, wide-awake business concern should be able to make three-quarter-length trousers a byword of masculine fashion. Your advertising and merchandising programs are obviously faulty.) and (2) as a means of testing your ability to meet the standards requisite in a distributor of our quality product. (Our loyal and dependable outlets can vend any trouser bearing the Levy label no matter how abominable their design and construction. You are apparently a faithless people.)
We do not wish to be bothered in the future by such tedious complaints. Please confine your correspondence to orders only. We are a busy and dynamic organization whose mission needless effrontery and harassment can only hinder. If you molest us again, sir, you may feel the sting of the lash across your pitiful shoulders.
Yours in anger,
Gus Levy, Pres.
