- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:09:14 -0500
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Seth Russell <russell.seth@gmail.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
* Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> [2005-02-06 00:28+0100] > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:08:28 -0500, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> wrote: > > * Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> [2005-02-05 20:49+0100] > > > > > > There's: > > > > > > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/Lists2RSS?ml=semantic-web > > > > > > (same pattern for all the public lists, btw) > > > > > > but doesn't contain post contents. Perhaps hints need a-dropping? > > > > I believe this is implimented in XSLT. Many of the posts in > > the archive are pretty lengthy, contain nested quoting etc. > > Rigght, good point. > > > And some have attachments linked from the main post. > > You mean "<enclosure>"s ;-) > > A link to the archive resource p'raps? > > I'm not sure > > the raw contents would be a great thing to include within the RSS > > feed. And there could be server-load considerations too, thinking > > about it. > > gzip & conditional GET supported..? I think all this would be a big job. Also there is some tension between a message-centric feed and a thread-centric feed. Currently each item is a thread, and the text for the item gets updated as the thread grows. But only new posts on new topics create new items that show up to newsreaders. > > But yes, ultimately I would love to see better message > > summaries integrated into a lists.w3.org RSS service. I think > > it'd involve someone doing some coding though... Perhaps a > > rough algorithm to begin with might be: excerpt the first 10 > > lines that don't begin with a '>' character? > > Erk, I vaguely remember regexp-like things being a bit clunky in XSLT > (1.0 at least). But stripping the > quoted lines does sound a very > good plan. > > > ps. I just asked my colleagues about possibility of adding > > RSS autodiscovery <link/> tags. > > Great stuff. OK I think that'll happen. In the meantime, with Max Froumentin's XPath help, I've updated the XSLT slightly. It now provides <link> inside the <channel>, which Sage needed before it'd consume the feeds. Also we fixed the code that extracts a basic description from the first listowner supplied <p> in the list overview page. I'm not sure to expect much more on this front in the near future, but I do think we need to be thinking more about how to interface lists.w3.org discussions with the more conversations going on in the weblog-powered world. Thanks again btw to Dom for making the RSS service. As a stopgap w.r.t. feed discovery, I have added a number of SWIG-related RSS feeds to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/ using the head/link discovery notation. Hope those might be useful... cheers, Dan
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