Moving to XML

Ownership of DTDs: Communities vs single vendors

• Rich Site Summary (RSS) is an important XML dialect used in news syndication
• The original DTDs (0.9, 0.91) was developed and 'owned' by Netscape
• By April 2001, Netscape had lost interest in RSS...
  • ... and deleted the DTDs from their servers
• Many other people's systems broke.
• My conclusion: single vendors are not to be trusted with community resources.
• Since 2001 the history of RSS and its competing versions has got even more complex and bizarre. It's still a really useful tool for doing syndication, though.

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