[georss] So Many formats - so little button space...

[Andrew Turner]

A question to implementers/consumers of GeoRSS.

If you look through the entire 'menu' of GeoRSS options, there are
quite a few combinations.

You have at least 3 XML options: Atom, RDF, RSS2
And 3 GeoRSS flavors: GML, Simple, W3C Geo

Together, those examples alone comprise 9 possible, valid, formats.
How has anyone addressed this plethora of options, or does anyone have
a suggestion? Should a each XML option embed all 3 flavors of XML?
Should an application choose 1 flavor of GeoRSS for all of its feeds?
What about consuming? You now have to put the 3 flavors of GeoRSS in
each of your 3 XML parsers.

I understand all the history/legacy at work (well, aware *of*, though
maybe not understand) to produce this problem. But I was also hoping
people had some suggestion/ideas on how to cleanly handle creating,
displaying (for a user to grab and add to their own
reader/aggregator), and consume these options?

The User Interface is probably the hardest to deal with. Fortunately,
most readers understand all available formats, so users can just grab
the biggest/brightest button for their feed.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Andrew Turner
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