The pseudo-spec has it's own list, might this be better discussed there? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSS2-Support/messages As for pubDate not being an...
... He asked an honest question. Some of us tried to give an honest answer about a behavior that, as far as I know, is not explicitly spec'ed out in any...
... Let's say the user has already read the item and the aggregator has disposed of its copy. How do you check that there has been a change to title, ...
... Sure. Completely valid points. I was only relating some of the user feedback we've received and how we do things. Mark -- Mark Fletcher Bloglines ...
Howdy I posted a query to rss-dev ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/6014 ... parts of which were picked up here. Given that there's a range of...
Stan, I encourage you to think of your readers as users. Then, decide for yourself if they would be pleased or annoyed to have the item repeat. If you want to...
Hi Dave Actually, in the cases I'm thinking of, I don't think users would want the item to repeat. It's the same item, just slightly changed. Repeating the...
Hi Dave Point 1 at the top of ... http://backend.userland.com/permalinksNewsAggregators ... mentions one use of a GUID: "To determine if an item is new or not,...
Hi Peter I'm using FeedDemon, by the progger behind HomeSite and TopStyle, Nick Bradbury. I run it stretched across two monitors, with the channel and...
Okay, now I get it. I wouldn't change the guid or the pubDate. Perhaps what's needed is a revision-number, or a last-revised element, or both. Neither is in...
dc:modified sounds about right: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#modified although this might be seen as "funky", depending on how you interpret ...
Hi Danny ... That looks quite promising to me. [ I'm a fan of Prior Art, a friend of Specs, and a proud patron of Not Invented Here. ... My intuitive...
I don't agree. Publication date is a concept that exists outside of RSS, and outside of computers. For example, every night at about 7PM Eastern the NY Times...
Hi Dave ... Okey-doke. Thanks for the clarification. Moment of release to public consumption, versus creation moment. But still not meant to be changed, right...
I don't agree. Publication date is a concept that exists outside of RSS, and outside of computers. For example, every night at about 7PM Eastern the NY Times...
... of RSS, ... web ... aggregator/newsreader ... Whatever, it ... world ... publication is ... should have. ... Actually, you make a good point about the...
... No they aren't, there was no namespace declaration. I suppose perhaps I should have given one, although I did initially refer to the fully-qualified form -...
... perhaps I ... qualified ... Most people use the common prefixes dc: and dcterms:, which are used throughout the DCMI site, to reference DCMES and the...
... Given the oft-stated position that RSS 2.0 is frozen, new elements are unlikely. I agree the RSS 2.0 maintainers should consider providing rules on the use...
fyi: Issues I've encountered trying to interpret RSS 2.0 - What is the significance of the order of the elements? What is the relationship between a child...
fyi, on rss-dev : (me:) ... (Lucas Gonze:) That's a good idea. That clears up the "ugly mess of angle brackets" problem, and the atom:info trick clears up the...
The RSS V2.0 specification only supports a single <language> element in the channel and provides no means to flag language use at the item level. This causes...
... I can't answer that question, but I can pose/answer two related questions. Do any aggregators support xml:lang? Not that I'm aware of. But the more...
... at ... constructing ... are ... ISO ... tag, ... define ... it's ... of ... guidance ... in ... I have run into this problem, as well. The language...
... But, the w3c documents point to RFC1766 as well as what was then an Internet Draft but is now RFC3066. The reference to RFC3066 is indirect. Nonetheless, I...
Howdy -- Has anyone done any collecting of info on the usage of particular extension namespaces by RSS-producing tools, and similarly on RSS-consuming tools' ...
This might be of interest: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5/specifications/rss20ModulesNam espaces but to put it into context, this might be of...
Hello all. I am a beginner in the syndication world and I need some advice. If I'm not wrong, I have tried RSS (0.9x and 2.0) and RDF (RSS 1.0) and I'm not...
Are their any scripting tools that support rss2 with enclosures? I've done some hunting and haven't found any. I'm particularly interested in perl and python...
