RTS 0.2 (Experimental)

RTS 0.2

This standard was used in early beta testing, and is still recognized, but should not be used.

<rts version="0.2">
  <channel>

    <profile>
      <uri>http://www.trustbase.org/users/stan.xml</uri>
      <name>Stan</name>    
      <link>http://www.wanderingstan.com</link>
      <description>I'm a student at the University of Osnabrueck.</description>
      <image>http://www.trustbase.org/users/stan.jpg</image>
    </profile>		

    <reports>

      <report>
         <scope>*metafilter.com*</scope>
         <uri>http://www.metafilter.com/</uri>
         <trust degree="50"/>
         <description>
           Nice source for fun links. 
           See also&lt;a href="http://www.monkeyfilter.com"&gt;monkeyfilter&lt;/a&gt;
         </description>
         <date>2005-01-02T23:04Z</date>    
      </report>    
      .
      .  
      .
    </reports>

    <informers>

      <informer>
        <uri>http://www.trustbase.org/users/koenigb.xml</uri>
      </informer>    
      .
      .
      .
    </informers>

scope

Where this report applies. Currently, may be either (1) an exact URI, (2) a domain with subdomain, or (3) just a domain. Examples:

http://www.google.com/
*news.google.com*
*google.com*

uri

A "representative" link for this URI. If the user clicks on this report, this is where they will be taken.

trust

The degree attribute indicates, basically, the quality of the content found within scope. (Yes, it is poorly named.) There are no rules as to what the values must mean other than this: Values below 0 are poor quality, or anything that should be avoided. A value equal to zero indicats the content is completely average. A value above zero indicates the content has good quality. Currenly, Outfoxed uses these values: Dangerous = -50, Bad = -25, Good = 50.

description

A description of the content found within scope, reasoning for the quality rating given, and anything else the informer giving the report wants to say. Links are allowed, but the anglebrackets must be encoded.

date

Date that this report was made.