[Zope] RDF and Zope

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu>
To: Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>
Cc: Zope Listserv <zope@zope.org>
Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] RDF and Zope


>What do you mean by "inward syndication"? I would love to have some
>product that would allow a Zope site to display RSS-based news. Is that
>what you're talking about?
>
>What are the copyright issues here? I would assume that Reuters, for
>example, has some sort of financial arrangement with Netscape. One would
>assume that they wouldn't been too keen on having their news displayed on
>just anyone's page.

I think Edd does indeed mean reading in an RSS file from somewhere and
publishing the headlines. As far as copyright goes, if someone is providing
an RSS file, I think the intention is to allow people to list their news
headlines on their own sites. This is not the same as putting the articles
on your site though. This is just summary information. Companies like
Reuters probably would not offer an RSS file. But, there are many, many
sites that do (just see my.userland.com or the channels available for My
Netscape).

To an extent, the tools to display RSS files are already available...
There's urllib for grabbing the files and XMLDocument for providing access
to the information contained within them. If people are doing a lot of RSS
syndication, it may be good to have an object specifically designed for easy
manipulation of RSS. But, for now, it seems like the tools that exist are
pretty powerful.

Kevin