Microsoft proposes RSS extensions

Posted on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 10:30 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft has released information of a set of proposed extension to RSS to make it easier to receive and share data on the Web.
A draft of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) version 0.9 for RSS 2.0, and Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML), has been published under the Creative Commons license by Microsoft.

SSE has been primarily devised as a way to improve the way data, like calendar or contacts information, is delivered to different devices, and shared or replicated. Microsoft said SSE could be used to replicate RSS-enabled calendar entries among groups or to enter new appointments when users are not online.
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