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    LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Kelly McKiernan
   This is a followup to last week's initial LEGO Enthusiast News Network Initiative (LENNI) posting, located at (URL) is a preliminary proposal for additions to an XML RSS/Atom feed, specifically for LEGO-related content. This is based on previous (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Tim Courtney
     (...) CAD -- can't believe you missed that one. :P -Tim (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Aquazone, Model Team (...) I wonder if there ought to be a way to denote that a theme is fan created? Ala PCS or Sea Monkeys? Also, is there merit in allowing hierarchy (Space/PCS or Castle/Forestmen for example)? That may be excessive (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Dan Boger
     (Bah! Have to use the web interface, which means I can't reply to all three posts I wanted to in one post. Copied from my Sent folder. ) (...) In general, I wouldn't limit us to only Item level elements. That might be a guideline for implementation, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Kelly McKiernan
     (...) I did an hour of surfing today, and came up with a few things, none of which really strikes me as being perfect. The most easily-implemented regional listing is the ISO-3166-2 standard: (URL) (Click "Local ISO codes" next to the country in (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Dan Boger
     (...) Does this solve the "what's near me" problem? Perhaps there's an API someplace that will help figure that out? (...) I figure the same web-app could be written to generate lat/long? Maybe that's not so easy to do, I haven't looked it up? ... (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Kelly McKiernan
     Great comments, thanks! To recap, here's what I'm gleaning from the comments. I agree with 1-4, am shaky on 5, like leaving 6 alone, need more info for 7, and like the optimism of 8. 1. Namespace "lenni" in lower case - since XML tags are by (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Huw Millington
   An excellent start Kelly. As publisher of RSS for Brickset and brickish.org, here are my comments. (...) I'd vote for once at the top. I appreciate that its inclusion potentially opens up lenni for use by others, but given that much of the spec (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Dan Boger
   (...) We could use this format, but it's a little bit harder for computers to parse. Not a big deal, especially for perl (of course :), but maybe we want to go with a more machine-friendly format? 2004-08-30T12:00:00Z This would be the equivilent of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Huw Millington
    "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20040901134145....ron.com... (...) It would indeed, although the task of determining the co-ordinates falls upon the publisher, and it is not that easy a task for the novice. There are (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Kelly McKiernan
   (...) That's one of my concerns as well. It is a nifty idea, but it's pretty far outside the original scope of the project. Parsing latitude/longitude (and distances between two points) implies a level of complexity well above a simple XML text (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal —Ross Crawford
   (...) Looks like about Aurora OR to me. (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
 

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