Hey all,
Andreas Sewe and I have published a new draft of the feed rank draft.
This is a major update that greatly simplifies the specification.
As a refresher, Feed Rank aims to provide a standardized extension for
associating numeric rankings with entries. Such ranks can be used for a
broad variety of purposes. Standardizing such a mechanism eliminates
the need for vendors to go off and invent their own elements that serve
identical purposes (e.g. Gdata has a rating element, Digg has a rating
element, etc).
Example,
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
xmlns:re="http://purl.org/atompub/rank/1.0";>
...
<entry>
<id>http://example.com/movies/starwars</id>
<title>Star Wars</title>
<re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#all";
scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity";>123</re:rank>
<re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#scifi";
scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity";>53</re:rank>
...
</entry>
<entry>
<id>http://example.com/movies/citylights</id>
<title>Charlie Chaplin: City Lights</title>
<re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#all";
scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity";>5734</re:rank>
<re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#comedy";
scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity";>27</re:rank>
...
</entry>
</feed>
- James
