[jdev] Re: weather data over Jabber

[Trejkaz Xaoza]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:27, Matthew Terenzio wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Rachel Blackman wrote:
> >> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/schema/latest_DWML.txt
> >
> > ...I think I'm blind.  That XML made my eyes bleed.  It's not even
> > remotely human-readable!
>
> Not sure what that is exactly, but it's not XML, not even a fragment of
> a valid xml doc.

LOL.  That's even harsher than I would have put it.  The document is at least 
well-formed XML, although validity to a schema I have not checked. :-)

In any case, I think it conveys 100 times more information than your average 
user typically needs in a weather readout, particularly due to redundancy.  
We already have our way of displaying many similar items from different 
times, in the form of pubsub items.

For reference, the current Weather Agent uses:
    Temperature, and Wind Chill
    Min, Max Temp
    Conditions
    Pressure
    Humidity, Dewpoint
    Wind (direction and speed)

It doesn't, however, do forecasts at all, and that's one of the things I 
wanted to address.  I'm not sure such a thing would fit into an IM client per 
se, but one of the use cases for weather syndication which I was exploring 
was just connecting to an XMPP server from a little desktop applet, instead 
of pulling the data from a web server.

TX

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