Feed.TXT - A Free Feeds Format in Plain Text w/ Structured Meta Data and Markdown ; -)

[James Smits]

I know this is the wrong list for this, but JSON Feed seems like as much of
a joke as Feed.TXT.  RSS works and has widespread adoption.  As far as I
can tell there is no upside to JSON feed other than "it isn't XML".  I
don't see a business case for supporting another feed format simply because
JSON is easier to parse.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    The structured meta data block is (simplified) YAML [1] e.g:
>
> id:        http://therecord.co/chris-parrish
>  title:     Special #1 - Chris Parrish
>  url:       http://therecord.co/chris-parrish
>  summary:   Brent interviews Chris Parrish, co-host of The Record and
> one-half of Aged & Distilled.
>  published: 2014-05-09T14:04:00-07:00
>  attachments:
>  - url:
> http://therecord.co/downloads/The-Record-sp1e1-ChrisParrish.m4a
>    mime_type:     audio/x-m4a
>    size_in_bytes: 89970236,
>    duration_in_seconds: 6629
>
>
>    As an alternative you can use "classic" JSON or newer human
> versions (e.g. SON - Simple Object Notation, JSON5 or HJSON, for
> example). If you use JSON than the begin / next / end marker change
> e.g.:
>
>    |>>>      becomes    |{
>    </>        becomes   }/{
>    <<<|      becomes    }|
>
>      Cheers.
>
> [1] Good point- I know JSON is a subset of YAML and JSON is YAML but
> YAML is not JSON etc.
>
> PS: In difference to the new YAML Feed format - Feed.TXT looks like a
> joke too ;-) It's easy it can't be true but it's for real e.g. all
> content blocks use plain text with markdown formatting conventions ;-)
>  No more need to clean the HTML for cross-site scripting etc.
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