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Contact Methods RSS Extension
Version 1.0 (Release)
Contact: Jonathan Crossland, Lucid Ocean Limited
Last Modified: 18th January 2007 |
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The Contact Methods specification provides an extension for the RSS 2.0 format. A working knowledge of RSS 2.0 is required. For more information on RSS 2.0, please see http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss .
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Who can use these extensions?
This specification can be utilized by Content Producers and Content Consumers.
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| Extension Name: |
Contact RSS |
| Extension Namespace: |
http://lucidocean.com/contact |
| Purpose |
The intent of Contact Methods |
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The Contact specification provides contact information. By specifying contact elements, you can make yourself and/or company available via standard means. The intention is for aggregators to consume and make the Contact information more accessible.
- Provide user details
- Specify a Provider
- Specify options
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| Notes: |
Optional elements will be marked as [Optional] |
| Declaration: |
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:contact ="http://lucidocean.com/contact"> |
| Example |
<!-- Begin Snippet -->
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:contact="http://lucidocean.com/contact">
<channel>
<contact:method url="http://www.skype.com">
<contact:uid>lucidocean</contact:uid>
<contact:provider>skype</contact:provider>
<contact:options></contact:options>
</contact:method>
<title>Lucid Ocean Blog</title>
<!-- End Snippet -->
example: contact.xml
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| Specification |
| <contact:method> |
The Contact Method, how you wish to have initiated contact. 0 or more contact:method elements
The contact:method element can reside within the RSS <channel> element where it refers to the author, or within the <crss:details> element,
(see crss:details within the crss specification)
Attributes
- url
The url of the provider.
Nodes
- <contact:uid>
The user name, email or account id.
- <contact:provider>
The provider name: example skype, gtalk, msn
- <contact:options>
[Optional] Any options, attributes as specified by the provider html/javascript,url requirements.
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| Enquiries: |
Comments are welcome, please send your comment, enquiry or suggestion to
contact [@] lucid ocean [dot] com
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| Revision History: |
0.1 Draft
1.0 Release
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| Acknowledgements: |
Author: Jonathan Crossland
A special thanks to:
On the Lucid Ocean Team: Matthew Ball
Matrix e-Business Team: Glen Jones
And everyone in Lucid Ocean and Matrix e-Business who have contributed.
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| Licence Information: |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
We would prefer discussion and the evolving of this specification together with you.
Feel free to contact us.
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| Lucid Ocean limited |