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Reptile supports using OCS (Open Content Syndication) as a format or syndicating RSS (Rich Site Summary and other content. This provides us with a slightly distributed infrastructure for content distribution.

Publishers can create new RSS channels (or weblogs) and publish them to other Reptile users. This has a number of significant advantages including the current adoption rate but has the downside of not working over distributed networks (not really P2P, more client/server oriented.


OCS and content syndication

Reptile support content syndication via the Open Content Syndication (OCS) format. This allows new content to 'stream' into Reptile in an open and distributed manner.

Providers

There are a number of OCS providers available:

All Reptile providers are registered in 'resource:/xml/content/feeds/content-feeds.xml'

Example:



<content-feeds xmlns="http://schemas.openprivacy.org/reptile/content-feeds"
               xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
               xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

    <feed location="http://www.xmltree.com/ocs.ocs?aID=burtonator&amp;urlCount=100&amp;keys=*5271" 
          contentType="http://alchemy.openjava.org/ocs/directory#">
           
        <dc:title>XMLTree content feed (5271).</dc:title>

        <dc:description>

        XMLTree content feed.

        </dc:description>

        <sy:updatePeriod>daily</sy:updatePeriod>

        <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>

    </feed>

</content-feeds>
    

        



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