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Content Syndication with RSS

by Ben Hammersley
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

mod_wiki

Synopsis

Wikis—web pages that grant editing rights to everyone—are increasingly popular, but they give RSS feed creators plenty of special problems. Because wikis contain extensive information about how the page has been edited, and by whom, they require their own module to supply all the necessary elements.

Namespace

mod_wiki ’s prefix is wiki:, and the identifying URI is http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/. mod_wiki also uses mod_dublincore for some of its elements. Hence, the lovely root element:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
         xmlns:wiki="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/"
 >

Elements

wiki:interwiki

An optional subelement of channel , wiki:interwiki refers to the moniker of the wiki in question if it is part of an interwiki setup. It can take two forms, between which you may choose—the simpler:

<wiki:interwifi>INTERWIKI MONIKER<wiki:interwiki>

or the more complex, which may be unparsable for simple parsers:

<wiki:interwiki>
  <rdf:Description link="URL TO WIKI">
    <rdf:value>WIKI NAME</rdf:value>
  </rdf:Description>
</wiki:interwiki>
wiki:version

An optional subelement of item , containing the version number of the page.

wiki:status

An optional subelement of item, denoting it as new, updated, or deleted.

wiki:importance

An optional subelement of item, describing the importance of the change to the page (either major or minor).

wiki:diff

An optional subelement ...

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