Overview

RSS aggregators do a great job at parsing RSS feeds but there is additional metadata in the HTML posts in the form of comments and trackbacks and we'd like to parse this out.

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• Q: Can't users just break their templates?
  
• A: Yes but they could also remove the autodiscovery tags and so forth. If they break them the parser should ignore the broken comments.
  
• Q: Why not just have comment feeds?
  
• A: Comment RSS/Atom feeds are one solution. There are some additional advantages with using HTML.
  1. Developers don't have to change much. 2. If you already have the HTML you can index the comments with no additional IO. Imagine an email style pane for threading which was directly integrated within your browser. 3. Why does it make sense to have a separate XML file when the data is right there in the XHTML file.
     

Who's Interested?

Wiki Markup\[http://peerfear.org KevinBurton\] - Rojo Networks Inc.

Name?

Is "Open Comments" a good name?

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onTrackback()

@param author The author of the comment
@param weblog The URL to weblog of the author.
@param permalink The permalink to the comment post.
@param content The content of the comment.

onComment( String author,
           String weblog,
           String permalink, 
           String content, 
           Date date )

Existing Template Structure

Typepad

<meta name="generator" content="http://www.movabletype.org/" />

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