XML.com: Should Atom Use RDF? [Aug. 20, 2003]
The “Syndicate this Site” link on this and many other blogs is based on a standard called “RSS,” a way to encode information in XML. RSS is five years old and there are several different versions still in common use. So, there are movements afoot to change the specification,
Atom being one of them.
RDF, The Resource Description Framework, “integrates a variety of applications from library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content to personal collections of music, photos, and events using XML as an interchange syntax.” (See W3C.)
This article examines in some detail the technical issues involved.
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