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Book Sense Bestseller List namespace

The Book Sense Bestseller List namespace is used to record information specific to book ranking and different dates that apply to the list.

URI

http://spiders.com/specs/xml/bsbl/

Suggested Prefix

bsbl

Description

Element Description
rank

Indicates the ranking of this book. Books ranked #1 are considered the best selling book on the list. More than one book on the list may be ranked the same.

This element is found as a subelement of the "item" element in an RSS file.

There are no attributes or sub-elements.

history

Indicates the number of times this book has been on this list, and the position on the list for the previous report.

This element is found as a subelement of the "item" element in an RSS file.

The previous ranking is in the attribute "last", and this attribute may be absent.

The number of times on the list is in the attribute "wol", and this may either be a number or the single character * to indicate it has been on the list more than 52 times.

There are no sub-elements or text.

listDate

Indicates two dates for this list: the last day of sales that it records, and the date it was officially published (which may be different than the date the file was available). Dates are in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Also indicates what period this list covers.

This element is found as a subelement of the "channel" element in an RSS file.

The attribute "published" reports the official publication date for the list.

Sales through the date ending in "ending" have been reported on this list.

The period of the list are in the attribute "period". A value of "week" indicates that it is for sales during the week, "month" for sales during the month (ending on the "ending" date) and "year" for sales during the year (ending on the "ending" date).

There are no sub-elements or text.

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