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Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc ----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a
Some of the categories of use cases are:RSS Original Sourcesauthors using text or simple XML editorsauthors using "smart" XML editorsRSS generated by a user-chosen tool (eg. XML::RSS)RSS generated by the hosting site/software (eg. Manila, eGroups)See the RSS Info listRSS MiddlewareaggregatorsdistributorsRSS clients, renderers, and applicationsserver sites (my.*)local generated home pagesRSS meta-data engines (queries, catalogs, etc.)special-purpose apps (eg. RSS-on-desktop/toolbar, tickers)See the RSS Info listSome of the types of tools used for the above:Generic RDF Librariesmay or may not have access to schema informationmay not preserve or output RSS-required typed-element formatprovide techniques for resolving repeated statementsvery "loose" at the library level(need specific list of tools)Generic RSS librariesmay or may not have access to schema informationconvert RSS format files to in-memory structuresgenerally very strict at the library level wrt. core elementsdifferences between RSS libs based on RDF or not(need specific list of tools)Dedicated ParsersSAX, DOM, XSLT, XPath (generic XML libraries)Tools and applications that read RSS on their ownTools and applications built on top of generic librariesIt should be noted especially that there's a clear seperation of issues that affect applications (written to process known, specific RSS elements and modules) differently than generic libraries (which may or may not have specific RSS element and module information).It would be very useful to have a set of basic examples within each of these usage categories and across several tool types. Something simple, along the lines of Ingo Macherius and Michel Rodriguez' "Ways to Rome" article that shows usage of different Perl modules to perform the same task.
RSS,Tool,Overview,Some,the,cat