Sample Characters RSS output that includes both updates and follow recommendations.

justin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns="http://backend.userland.com/rss2" xmlns:rss-foaf="http://rss-extensions.org/wiki/RSS-FOAF">
	<channel>
		<title>Justin Williams's Characters</title>
		<link>http://carpeaqua.com/characters/justin.rss</link>
		<description>An example of a simple RSS feed. This is the description of the feed itself, not an item.</description>
	 
		<!-- 
		There are a set of RSS extensions on rss-extensions.org for FOAF.  
		http://rss-extensions.org/wiki/RSS-FOAF
		
		In general I tend to defer to Brent on all things RSS, but it seems like a good place to 
		start.  
	
		The general premise is that you create an <item> with the FOAF data and the feed should 
		parse it as a relationship rather than a Characters post.
		
		My feeling is that the readability of the RSS-FOAF stuff kind of sucks, and it seems to be 
		abandoned by its creator.  We could improve it.			
		
		In our case, I'm using them to recommend 5 people to follow.
		--> 
	 
	 	<!-- //begin:recommendations -->
		<item>
		<title>Brent Simmons</title>
		<link>http://inessential.com</link>
		<description>Godfather of Mac RSS.</description>
		<rss-foaf:type name="Person"/>
		<rss-foaf:rel to="http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Characters"/>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title>Guy English</title>
		<link>http://kickingbear.com/</link>
		<description>Mountain Man.</description>
		<rss-foaf:type name="Person"/>
		<rss-foaf:rel to="http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Characters"/>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title>Ash Ponders</title>
		<link>http://aptfolk.com/</link>
		<description>Second Gear's Support Guru.</description>
		<rss-foaf:type name="Person"/>
		<rss-foaf:rel to="http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Employees"/>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title>Eddie Wilson</title>
		<link>http://eddit.com/</link>
		<description>Pretty pixelator.</description>
		<rss-foaf:type name="Person"/>
		<rss-foaf:rel to="http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Employees"/>
		</item>

		<!-- Each person you follow above should be attached to one of the groups below -->		
		<item>
		<title>Group: Characters</title>
		<description>People contributing to Characters.</description>
		<guid>http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Characters</guid>
		<rss-foaf:group name="Chracters"/>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title>Group: Second Gear Employees</title>
		<description>These are the people that make cool stuff for Second Gear.</description>
		<guid>http://carpeaqua.com/characters/#Group_Employees</guid>
		<rss-foaf:group name="Employees"/>
		</item>		
		<!-- //end:recommendations -->		
	 	
		<!-- //begin:updates -->		
		<!-- A Sample set of items for a Characters dataset --> 
		<item>				
		<title></title> <!-- Do we need a title?  Feel's Pownce-y, which is a bad thing to me. --> 
		
		<!-- We need to to ensure Google friendliness so being able to reference a post is essential --> 
		<link>http://carepaqua.com/characters/5.html</link>		
		<description>It's not official until there are t-shirts.</description>
		<guid>http://carepaqua.com/characters/5.html</guid>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title></title>
		<link>http://carepaqua.com/characters/4.html</link>
		<description>What we really need is another technology blog written written by a young, white guy who sells sponsorships of his RSS feed.</description>
		<guid>http://carepaqua.com/characters/4.html</guid>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title></title>
		<link>http://carepaqua.com/characters/3.html</link>
		<description>@nick_harris Tussin fixes everything. Thanks for the tip! http://bit.ly/eS3AuH</description>
		<guid>http://carepaqua.com/characters/3.html</guid>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title></title>
		<link>http://carepaqua.com/characters/2.html</link>
		<description>How can Flash perform "exceedingly well" on the Motorola Xoom, but have "pretty choppy" HD video playback? http://shrbl.in/fA0hpc</description>
		<guid>http://carepaqua.com/characters/2.html</guid>
		</item>
		
		<item>
		<title></title>
		<link>http://carepaqua.com/characters/1.html</link>
		<description>It can't be a post-PC device until it doesn't require a PC to get started. http://skit.ch/be14</description>
		<guid>http://carepaqua.com/characters/1.html</guid>
		</item> 
		<!-- //end:updates -->		
</channel>
</rss>