Spec: RSS 1.0 Slash Modules

RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Slash

Table of Contents

• Authors
• Version
• Status
• Rights
• Description
• Namespace Declarations
• Model
• Example

Authors

• Chris Nandor, Open Source Development Network
• Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly & Associates

Version

Latest Version: http://www.egroups.com/files/rss-dev/Modules/Proposed/mod_slash.html

• DRAFT 0.4 2000-12-22 (Fixed namespace. Using new strict XHTML template.) rd
• DRAFT 0.3 2000-12-2

Status

Proposed

Rights

Copyright © 2000 by the Authors.

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the RDF Site Summary 1.0 Specification and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of the specification for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.

This copyright applies to the RDF Site Summary 1.0 Specification and accompanying documentation and does not extend to the RSS format itself.

Description

Slash is the source code and database that was originally used to create Slashdot, and has now been released under the GNU General Public License. It is a bona-fide Open Source/Free Software project.

The Slash RSS 1.0 module augments the RSS core and Dublin Core module's metadata with channel and item-level elements specific to Slash-based sites.

Namespace Declarations

xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"

Model

<item> Elements:

• <slash:section> ( #PCDATA )
• <slash:department> ( #PCDATA )
• <slash:comments> ( positive integer )
• <slash:hit_parade> ( comma-separated integers )

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:RDF
    xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">

    <channel rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/">
        <title>Slashdot</title>
        <link>http://slashdot.org</link>
        <description>News for nerds, stuff that matters</description>
        <dc:publisher>OSDN</dc:publisher>
        <dc:creator>[email protected]</dc:creator>
        <dc:rights>Copyright © 2000 Slashdot</dc:rights>
        <dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
        <dc:date>2000-12-17T01:17-05:00</dc:date>
        <image rdf:resource="http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif"/>
        <items>
            <rdf:Seq>
                <rdf:li resource="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/17/0622203"/>
            </rdf:Seq>
        </items>
    </channel>
    <image rdf:about="http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif">
        <title>Slashdot</title>
        <url>http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif</url>
        <link>http://slashdot.org</link>
    </image>
    <item rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/17/0622203">
        <title>Jupiter Moon Ganymede May Have An Ocean</title>
        <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/17/0622203</link>
        <description>This article talks about how Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, may have a salt water ocean on it. Kind of ...</description>
        <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>space</dc:subject>
        <dc:date>2000-12-17T01:17</dc:date>
        <slash:section>articles</slash:section>
        <slash:department>not-an-ocean-unless-there-are-lobsters</slash:department>
        <slash:comments>177</slash:comments>
        <slash:hit_parade>177,155,105,33,6,3,0</slash:hit_parade>
    </item>
</rdf:RDF>