[georss] Georss extension

[Gregor J. Rothfuss]

Carl Reed OGC Account wrote:
> I would like to strongly encourage this group to consider using xAL 
> (OASIS standard) for expressing additional location metadata (also known 
> as civil address information). xAL has been adopted by Google for use in 
> KML. The OGC is also collaborating with OASIS to develop GML schemas for 
> xAL.

agreed.

> I do not want to minimize the work that Marc has done - excellent stuff.
> 
> And there are not substantial differences other than in the tags. For 
> example,
> 
> geonames:countryCode>BR</geonames:countryCode>
> 
> would become
> 
> <CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode>

or rather, namespaced:

xmlns:xal="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0

   <xal:CountryNameCode>US</xal:CountrNameCode>

although it seems google is redefining the default namespace in their 
usage of xAL (and wrapping it in a container element):

<AddressDetails xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0">
       ...</AddressDetails>

changing the default namespace strikes me as a bad idea. i prefer 
prefixed elements.

> I know the editor of xAL, so if anyone has any questions about that 
> standard, I am sure Ram would be happy to help.

only to make their standard docs web-accessible, and not as a zip 
download. it bothers me that i can't quickly look something up in the 
browser, plus the standard doc does not get indexed that way..

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/download.html

-gregor