I want to implement the RSS 2.0 <textInput> sub-element. Here is what the
RSS 2.0 Specification [1] says...

<START>
A channel may optionally contain a <textInput> sub-element, which contains
four required sub-elements.

<title> -- The label of the Submit button in the text input area.

<description> -- Explains the text input area.

<name> -- The name of the text object in the text input area.

<link> -- The URL of the CGI script that processes text input requests.

The purpose of the <textInput> element is something of a mystery. You can
use it to specify a search engine box. Or to allow a reader to provide
feedback. Most aggregators ignore it.
<END>

However, what I want to know is how Dave Winer who created RSS 2.0 and
presumably wrote the specification claims this sub-element is a mystery when
it was Dave Winer who created the element?

Has anybody *ever* implemented textInput? I can think of a couple of ways it
can be very useful but how to implement it? ANYBODY?

<%= Clinton Gallagher

[1]
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#lttextinputgtSubelementOfLtchannelgt