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#7 Re: Aggregating external articles Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Mon 12 Mar 2007 at 22:06 I was thinking of RSS done right! Articles are placed on a source web server in XML (ideally digitally signed), newer version can be added as and when the site owner wants. The aggregating site has a link to the XML source, assuming it's approved it's imported XSLTed to XHTML and shown on the aggregating site. Submission would be similar to today, it's approved just as articles are now. If the end user changes their XML version the date and signature details will change. The aggregating site can either automatically download and render it replacing it's copy or perhaps the editors get a note that a given feed has an update and it's manually approved. It could even show a diff like CPAN does for Perl modules. That way the author only maintains one copy and this site gets extra articles - or that's the theory. To make it work though we'd need to use a standard XML language, there are plenty to pick from, or we could make our own. If someone wants to use a new one then that's okay as long as they provide an XSLT to get it to the format we need. It's all doable in Perl (or similar), with XSLT, HTTP and GPG. -- "It's Not Magic, It's Work" Adam

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