Simplicity and extensibility
Tim O'Reilly writes in Dan Gillmor's remarks: "Straightforwardness and extensibility ought not be symmetrical. What's more, any innovation that sets them up as contradicted, rather than supplements, has plainly accomplished something incorrectly."
Note: symmetrical signifies "autonomous or very much isolated".
Tim O'Reilly is discussing RSS2.0 (basic) and RSS1.0 (extensible). Of late I've been contemplating weblog subjects. There is by all accounts similar issues of effortlessness versus extensibility in this space as well, albeit not even close as much mud-tossing.
XTM represents XML Topic Maps. For a general presentation, look at the Cover Pages:
"A point guide is a sort of list or data overlay which can be built separate from a lot of assets, recognizing cases of subjects and connections inside the arrangement of assets."
The key things to note are that point maps are independent from the genuine substance and they are utilized to sort out substance into themes or classes. In spite of the fact that XTM was made uniquely in 2001, theme mapping goes back to 1993 and has its foundations in SGML. Directly there is a giveaway that this spec is a mind boggling monster. SGML resembles the ruler insect of XML (to get Scoble's subterranean insect illustration) and it has brought forth numerous XML ants.
The XTM spec is a massive creepy crawly, tipping the scales at 100 pages in length. In any case, being overwhelming gives it the benefit of extensibility. Utilizing XTM, you can characterize subjects as well as affiliations, occurances, qualities, chains of command, mergers – the rundown goes on.
XTM even has an extravagant term for making a point: reification. The spec characterizes this as:
"The demonstration of making a point. When anything is reified it turns into the subject of the theme in this way made; to reify something is consequently to make a point of which that thing is the subject."
Riiiiiight. Presently I comprehend why they utilized Shakespeare for instance point in the spec 🙂 But it additionally shows that XTM has a great deal of extension and you can characterize subjects for Africa.
Contrast this with the ENT determination. ENT represents Easy News Topics and it was worked as an extra to RSS2.0. The creators, Matt Mower and Paulo Valdemarin, try accentuating the straightforwardness of ENT:
"ENT is expected to be an extremely straightforward standard for depicting how point data can be brought into a RSS2.0 news source."
ENT is a lightweight subterranean insect, tipping the scales at just 8 pages. It has just two primary ideas: the "theme" and the "cloud", which resembles a guide of subjects. ENT fundamentally doesn't have a similar extensibility, or broadness of usefulness, that XTM has. Yet, here's the kicker. ENT can reference XTM. ENT themes can be connected to a XTM subject guide (just as RDF), through a URI inside a cloud. Hold up, lotta abbreviations in that last sentence. However, the fact of the matter is, utilizing ENT alongside XTM implies you get both effortlessness and extensibility.
And this should be possible in RSS2.0, and no uncertainty in RSS1.0 and Atom as well. Tim O'Reilly is correct, straightforwardness and extensibility don't need to be symmetrical. You can have it both ways. That is, the length of the ants don't eat it first 😉
Note: symmetrical signifies "autonomous or very much isolated".
Tim O'Reilly is discussing RSS2.0 (basic) and RSS1.0 (extensible). Of late I've been contemplating weblog subjects. There is by all accounts similar issues of effortlessness versus extensibility in this space as well, albeit not even close as much mud-tossing.
XTM represents XML Topic Maps. For a general presentation, look at the Cover Pages:
"A point guide is a sort of list or data overlay which can be built separate from a lot of assets, recognizing cases of subjects and connections inside the arrangement of assets."
The key things to note are that point maps are independent from the genuine substance and they are utilized to sort out substance into themes or classes. In spite of the fact that XTM was made uniquely in 2001, theme mapping goes back to 1993 and has its foundations in SGML. Directly there is a giveaway that this spec is a mind boggling monster. SGML resembles the ruler insect of XML (to get Scoble's subterranean insect illustration) and it has brought forth numerous XML ants.
The XTM spec is a massive creepy crawly, tipping the scales at 100 pages in length. In any case, being overwhelming gives it the benefit of extensibility. Utilizing XTM, you can characterize subjects as well as affiliations, occurances, qualities, chains of command, mergers – the rundown goes on.
XTM even has an extravagant term for making a point: reification. The spec characterizes this as:
"The demonstration of making a point. When anything is reified it turns into the subject of the theme in this way made; to reify something is consequently to make a point of which that thing is the subject."
Riiiiiight. Presently I comprehend why they utilized Shakespeare for instance point in the spec 🙂 But it additionally shows that XTM has a great deal of extension and you can characterize subjects for Africa.
Contrast this with the ENT determination. ENT represents Easy News Topics and it was worked as an extra to RSS2.0. The creators, Matt Mower and Paulo Valdemarin, try accentuating the straightforwardness of ENT:
"ENT is expected to be an extremely straightforward standard for depicting how point data can be brought into a RSS2.0 news source."
ENT is a lightweight subterranean insect, tipping the scales at just 8 pages. It has just two primary ideas: the "theme" and the "cloud", which resembles a guide of subjects. ENT fundamentally doesn't have a similar extensibility, or broadness of usefulness, that XTM has. Yet, here's the kicker. ENT can reference XTM. ENT themes can be connected to a XTM subject guide (just as RDF), through a URI inside a cloud. Hold up, lotta abbreviations in that last sentence. However, the fact of the matter is, utilizing ENT alongside XTM implies you get both effortlessness and extensibility.
And this should be possible in RSS2.0, and no uncertainty in RSS1.0 and Atom as well. Tim O'Reilly is correct, straightforwardness and extensibility don't need to be symmetrical. You can have it both ways. That is, the length of the ants don't eat it first 😉
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