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

[Scott Granneman]

You just said it yourself: it’s easier to parse. That’s the business 
case.

Scott
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On 6 Jun 2017, at 12:41, James Smits wrote:

> 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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