Re: [emergency-msg] CAP Channels

[Allen Wyke <emtc@nc.rr.com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:20, Art Botterell wrote: 
> At 12:26 PM -0400 8/15/03, Eliot Christian wrote:
> >In my model, the RSS file of available CAP alerts is just a "table 
> >of contents". All actual CAP alert content would not be in RSS 
> >format; it would be in CAP format.
> 
> Absolutely.  For another example, the index file I'm experimenting 
> with for the California EDIS channel 

This is conceptually (aka index, TOC, etc.) the same approach the
getCAPAlerts() function performs that I mentioned in an earlier email
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-msg/200308/msg00007.html). While we each of taken different approaches, the idea of getting a "short list" of alerts to see before requesting the whole alert is common and becoming a pattern to watch. I think this was what you were touching on in an earlier email (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-msg/200308/msg00019.html) as well.

Allen

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R. Allen Wyke
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