OSS was originally created as an image you could use on your web site. But as this came with language trouble, and applications of OSS got wider, an alternative to the image was needed.

The XML version is updated every 5 minutes just as the image, and consist of the following fields:

<bos>
   <project>
      <projectname>Full name of the project </projectname>
      <url>The URL of the project </url>
      <projectshortname>The short name of the project (may be the same as full name) </projectshortname>
      <status>Online status of project. Four possibilities: Online, Down, Unreachable and Closed. Closed projects remain for a while, they don't just disappear </status>
      <percent>Uptime percentage </percent>
      [<remark>Any relevant remarks </remark>]
   </project>
...
<updated>Date and time of last update (UTC) </updated>
[<script_versions>
   <script>
      <script_name>Name of the php script </script_name>
      <script_version>Version of the script </script_version>
   </script>
...
</script_versions>]
</bos>

The script versions part is reserved for future script collection and mirror scripts.

The XML file can be found at http://www.esea.dk/bos/bos.xml (NOTE: This location will change soon)