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| RSCML - Really Simple Catalogue Markup Language | ||
| What is it? Last updated by Anon on Tuesday, 08/14/2001 - 12:58 | ||
It's a proposal for a simple XML based standard that allows suppliers (and others) to publish a subset of the product catalogue data that they produce. The intention is that product search and discovery is turned into a two stage process. First a local index is built up by grabbing and combining the RSCML feeds from many suppliers. This builds a shortlist of product-suppliers. Then each one is manually researched by viewing the full product catalogue entry by going to the supplier site. It's designed to be trivially easy for the data creator (the supplier) to create this subset. And for the data user (The buyer or aggregator) to combine and collate data from multiple suppliers. It attempts to use the lessons learned from RSS headline syndication and apply them to the catalogue problem. | ||
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