Kosso has an interesting idea about extending RSS and OPML
Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006
at 12:02 PM (permalink)
Kosso sends his regrets for having to work last night, and not being able to join the OPML podcast, but he also drops an interesting hint on what he has been working on:
"Also, I noticed that Alex did a great job at annotating the podcast in the description. Now, this is perfect data to get organised in OPML with a 'time' attribute."
One way of implementing this would be to use a namespace to add an audio timestamp to RSS, and then create an RSS file with one item for each timestamped portion of a .mp3 file. A playlist linking to multiple annotated RSS files could then be constructed in OPML. Apple already has an iTunes namespace for RSS 2.0, but this doesn't allow for timestamping sections of the .mp3. Something tells me that namespaces for RSS and OPML are going to explode this year. Things may get messier than some people would like. 
