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Distributing lists of feeds
Last updated by Anon on Wednesday, 08/08/2001 - 15:46

There is a need for a simple standard for sites and aggregators to produce XML lists of the RSS feeds they know about.

There is an RDF standard called OCS which is already being used by several aggregators.
OCS files of known RSS feeds can be found at (says Kevin Burton):-
http://www.xmltree.com/ocs.ocs?aID=burtonator&urlCount=100&keys=*5271
http://www.xmltree.com/ocs.ocs?aID=burtonator&urlCount=100&keys=*5272
The above links work fine except they can only serve up 100 documents :(. It seems XMLTree breaks when I request more than 100.

http://www.xmltree.com/ocs.ocs?aID=burtonator&urlCount=1000&keys=*5273
http://www.xmltree.com/ocs.ocs?aID=burtonator&urlCount=1000&keys=*255864
http://www.moreover.com/categories/ocs/ocsdirectory.rdf
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/external-feeds.ocs
http://10.am/extra/ocsdirectory.xml

Newsglut
RSS published by Slashcode based sites
Slashcode Vv2 based sites publish this feed of the news sources they subscribe to /sites.pl?content_type=ocs"

Several people are experimenting with alternatives to OCS.


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