JSON and RSS

[Ray Daly]

RSS is a nice standard way for title, description, url and category. Plus more.

All of this in an XML format. I'd like to make the same information available in a JSON format. 

Is there any best practice for doing such a conversion?

[Dave Winer]

Hi Ray -- I've had a feed available in JSON for a while.

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/03/17/jsonifiedRss.html

JSON is basically another way of representing the same data as XML.

Not sure why we needed another way, but we have it. :-)

Dave

[Dan MacTough]

And there's also the JSON format output by River2, which is a little different:
http://dropbox.yabfog.com/rivers/admin/admin.json

[virtualCableTV]

RSS remains useful as its use of XML established naming conventions for elements and attributes documented by a specification which apparently enabled RSS to become the de facto standard as developers could --trust-- other developers to use the same element and attribute naming convention.

JSON lacks such conformity in this context hence any best practice which could and should emerge would be:

* Conformance to RSS element and attribute naming

* Conformance to the structure of RSS expressed as an XML document, i.e. a root, a channel and items

 

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:11:12 AM UTC-5, Ray Daly wrote:

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