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Danny Ayers is talking about getting a unified whole out of RSS/RDF, RSS 0.x/2.x, and Atom. To my mind, he's looking at this at the wrong level - the XML level:
I was just wondering how best to munge data from RSS x.x, RSS 1.0 and Atom. Sure, transforming everything into RSS 1.0 + the odd new term might work, but seems a little messy, strained. There are (potential) equivalences that could be specified properly between DC, RSS 1.0 and Atom/OWL), but that still seems a little limited. That 19s ignoring the RSS x.x stuff. But it just occurred to me that if a fresh ontology was created, it would be possible to have things like:
This is the wrong place to work for that. What you want is to get a set of domain objects - you can work with those in a unified fashion. At the XML level, it's going to be a complete nightmare...
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