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Well, it's not trying to be a complete all-around RSS processor, pluggable into other apps; it pulls out information that it reasonably expects to find and uses it to create something useful.
I missed Mike Champion's Wednesday talk at XML 2002 (see http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002/wednesday.asp#19 ; the slides are somewhere on that site, but I can't find them right now) but I really liked how his accompanying paper (on the conference CD) used RSS as an example of how much can get done when by concentrating on the needs of the receiving side of an XML transmission. My needs were similar to those of a lot of RSS use, and very simple: I wanted to display, in a web browser, story titles with descriptions and links to the stories from a variety of providers. It won't work with all the RSS out there, but it works with enough RSS to make it useful.
I could have made it even simpler (left out the date, etc.) and certainly could have made it richer and more bullet-proof (use more RSS information, do more error-checking, etc.). I hope that in its present state it will give a head start to XSLT developers who want to take advantage of RSS feeds.
Bob
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