Re: [RT] Status.xml, changes.xml, todos.xmlm, news and other descriptors

[David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>]

On 2003-04-30, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> No comments?
> 
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> > 
> > Again I want to tackle the status.xml file thing.
> > 
<snip/>
> > So in the end, I would propose that we don't pursue a single status.xml 
> > anymore, but make them into:
> > 
> > authors.xml (as <developers> but with added homepage links)
> > changes.xml (without authors section)
> > todo.xml    (without authors section)
> > compat.xml  (compatibility-breaks)
> > issues.xml  (the issue-vote part, remove it ATM because DOA)
> > news.xml    (the project headline news)
> > 
> > that will reside or in the main dir or in a 'project' or 'status' dir (I 
> > vote for 'status' dir).
> > 
> > Also, we replace the status.xml file with a STATUS.TXT file that is all 
> > text-based, ans that refers to the above xml descriptors for the 
> > structured data, keeping only unstructured extra info about the project.

Your ideas sound fine to me.

> >  --- news ---
> > 
> > Then we have to make a news.xml file.
> > I look at all the RSS feeds, but I don't like them to be source formats.
> > 
> > I could propose this news DTD, loosly based on RSS 0.91:
> > 
> > <news title="" description="" language="">
> >   <item>
> >    <title>shbat fix</title>
> >     <description>
> >     <!-- In here Document11 DTD content-->
> >     </description>
> >   </item>
> > </news>
> > 
> > Any suggestions?

A "date" attribute on <item>. Perhaps a "timespan" attribute on
the <news>.

How would we deal archives of news? I mean we do not want just
one big news.xml forever growing. Perhaps a directory approach
... news/ with say separate monthly news files. A directory generator
could build a table of contents.

--David

Re: [RT] Status.xml, changes.xml, todos.xmlm, news and other descriptors

[David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>]

David Crossley wrote:
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> <snip/>
>
> > > <news title="" description="" language="">
> > >   <item>
> > >    <title>shbat fix</title>
> > >     <description>
> > >     <!-- In here Document11 DTD content-->
> > >     </description>
> > >   </item>
> > > </news>
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?
> 
> A "date" attribute on <item>. Perhaps a "timespan" attribute on
> the <news>.

Oooh, i never know whether attributes or elements.

Another useful thing would be a unique identifier for
each item.

--David