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If you feel deeper interest in the development of the syndication framework formerly known as Echo, here are two blogs......

"Adam Curry is taking a stand.  I respect that."

I don't. He's throwing money at a problem which he doesn't appear to understand. I've posted a rant to that effect on my blog.

Sam: Mark's prototyping is a bit misleading. Where's the schema for that raw Necho package? The XML-RPC package has all the necessary datatype info inline, so an apples-to-apples comparison must include an example schema for Necho.

Links. New blogs: echonews and fecho.  Rich Salz has started a series of articles. Everybody at SuperNova has been exceptionally supportive.  Offers of assistance abound.  Dan Gillmor asked some probing questions... hopefully he will...

  Early hacking in necho Early hacking in necho. Isofarro: Not being content merely to produce a necho file I toyed with the idea of hacking together an aggregator. So I spent a bit of time scanning through the nntp//rss aggregator, and...

Roger: I'm not sure that a schema is necessary for Python, but it certainly would be helpful for a number of other languages - in particular languages which would benefit from this information being available at compile time as opposed to runtime.

If a schema doesn't emerge by the time I return to Raleigh, I'll toss one out.  Either way, once the schema is done, I'll volunteer to take the results and create sample clients with both Apache Axis and Apache XML-RPC.

Just mocked up a quick and dirty RSS to necho implementation in php. You can see the results at

http://www.tnl.net/channels/rss2necho/http://intertwingly.net/blog/index.rss

It's really rough code but if you change the URL after rss2necho to another RSS feed, you can get started on how your necho feed could look...

Drop me a note if you want the source as this is just a proof of concept.

Sam,
  I'm too busy with work and play (RSS Bandit/BlogX)  to track the Echo project so I have a question. Currently I've only seen proposals for a RESTful Echo API, what about a SOAP API?

More importantly what is the plan for allowing extensibility of the API. As it stands the proposed API is minimally functional and doesn't hit the 80/20 mark for what I'd like to expose to blog posting clients from BlogX. I can think of a umber of extensibility mechanisms using XML Web Services technologies and would like to ensure they are not overlooked for the RESTful API.

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Des prototypes du nouveau format de syndication (Necho (?)) existent [Mark Pilgrim et Aaron Swartz pour ne pas citer aussi ceux là]. Avertissement tout de même :...