It’s all XML in the end

As pointed out, At the end of the day, any XML meta­data wrap­per around the con­tent of our blog entries will do the job, and it’s triv­ial to trans­form one fla­vor of wrap­per to another.. A large part of the pur­pose of RSS2Necho was to demon­strate that if you have an RSS feed, you can get a Necho feed. Right now, the main issue I see is that, while the new stan­dard is still young, necho is still a sub­set of what RSS 2.0 can offer. Hope­fully, in the future, it will offer more but I’ve yet to be con­vinced that it will work mov­ing forward.

In the mean­time, I do believe that both for­mat can co-exist, and that a win­ner will emerge whether you inject money into the debate or not. Right now, I’m still bet­ting on RSS win­ning because it has built a strong fol­low­ing. Until aggre­ga­tors and read­ers are avail­able for (n)echo, the new stan­dard will largely be an aca­d­e­mic exercise.