Add the URL of any non RSS 2.0 feed in the following input box and click the button to convert it to RSS 2.0. It works also w/ Atom. A special present for Dave...
Here's a DTD for feedlist OPML, along with instructions for its use : http://semtext.org/wiki/index.php/OpmlDtd This can improve interoperability between...
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john moser
bluefoxicy@...
Apr 30, 2004 10:13 pm
RSS feeds would be so much more flexible if they could be threaded. Consider the lkml.org rss feed, or the various eweek and Yahoo! news RSS feeds. What if...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
May 1, 2004 12:02 am
Isn't this more of a client-side issue than feed related? Many reader programs already handle multiple levels of parent/child organizing. Also consider that by...
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Constantin Basturea
catalinutzul
Jun 3, 2004 11:06 pm
Hi everybody, Can anyone point me to some consistent information/guides about including HTML in RSS? Thanks, Constantin...
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jacobmr
Jun 29, 2004 10:13 pm
We've got a little excitement going on in the medical weblog community. Some folks are using the http://www.medlogs.com aggregator instead of the "home"...
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Eric Lunt
ghonzo
Jun 30, 2004 2:31 pm
Nice looking site! For RSS 2.0, you have the <comments> element that should point to a URL where the comments can be read and added -- so if the original feed...
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charlie_whale
Jul 27, 2004 2:22 pm
Hiya, Here's the pesky file: http://www.gadgetshop.com/eshop/rss/gadgetshop.xml I've a copy of it up at: http://www.bigmouthdesign.co.uk/gd.xml FeedValidator...
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Mark Fletcher
snoovler
Jul 27, 2004 4:06 pm
... The feed does indeed appear valid, and Bloglines doesn't have a problem parsing it. My guess is that Syndic8 and Yahoo don't recognize it as a UTF-16...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Jul 27, 2004 5:57 pm
... Does it need to be expressed in UTF-16? I'd wonder how many aggregators would be able to read it? I'm not saying that's not a problem, as UTF-16 is a...
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John Pacchetti
jpac@...
Jul 31, 2004 8:50 pm
I've been a fan of RSS for quite a while, however I could never find a service that allowed you to share calendar feeds with your family or friends. So I built...
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cienkibolek2004
Oct 8, 2004 7:00 pm
Hi, Are there any samples of the kind of stuff that's been causing the aggregators problems? I get the xmlns bit, but my guess is that if they can't take that...
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Clinton Gallagher
pocketchange...
Oct 28, 2004 4:49 am
When writing the XML is there a preferred order to write the optional elements? <%= Clinton Gallagher...
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Hans-Eric Grönlund
hasse42g
Nov 1, 2004 4:28 pm
Hi! Can I use relative URL:s (relative to the RSS feed document) for the link element? Does aggrevators support that? Many thanks Hans-Eric Grönlund...
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Danny Ayers
danny_ayers
Nov 6, 2004 4:00 pm
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this - I'm posting to several lists separately] Andrew Watt and myself would be grateful if anyone could help with...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 7, 2004 12:06 am
Relative URLs do not work w/ most aggregators. I would avoid them. Randy http://www.kbcafe.com ... the...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 7, 2004 12:07 am
No, the order of elements does not matter in RSS, but I would suggest the preferred order be the order the elements are written up in the spec. Randy ...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Nov 7, 2004 1:37 am
... No, most aggregators don't support it and with good reason. It's always possible an item in a feed might get re-aggregator out to another feed. It ...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Nov 7, 2004 1:41 am
... Given that many current aggregators have good sorting features, it's probably better to let them do their own ordering. This does mean, however, that...
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Houghton,Andrew
houghtoa
Nov 8, 2004 2:37 pm
... Actually, there is no "good reason" why aggregators should not support relative URL's. It's not that difficult and the argument given about re-aggregation...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 8, 2004 8:08 pm
Andy, Agreed. Unfortunately, most aggregators don't. So, I would advise against xml:base and relative URLs. In fact, all of the RSS validators [1], last I...
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eogreen71
Nov 13, 2004 8:17 pm
In developing a client aggregator for RSS 2.0, I have noticed that different RSS providers on the web order their XML elements differently. This breaks my XML...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Nov 13, 2004 8:32 pm
Never depend on ordering. Especially not in an RSS-1.0 feed. -Bill Kearney Syndic8.com...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 15, 2004 2:31 am
Unfortunately, RSS 2.0 and Atom are not XSD friendly, that is, you can't write proper strict XSD to describe either. Rather you have to write a lax XSD, which...
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Danny Ayers
danny_ayers
Nov 27, 2004 1:28 pm
[apologies for crossposts, I'm not sure which list deals with RSS 2.0 technical issues] There's a use case for multiple formats that's being defined for RSS ...
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Danny Ayers
danny_ayers
Nov 27, 2004 4:29 pm
A little update for rss-dev, some pointers from the Podcasting list relating to the RSS 2.0 approach to mp3+BitTorrent enclosures. I wasn't missing anything,...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Nov 29, 2004 4:10 am
Mud's Tests is a new blog about the end-user's experience w/ blogging and RSS feeds. Lot's of great information. I've been reading it for the last hour. Dave...
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olivers_l
Nov 29, 2004 9:40 am
As one of the biggest B2B websites in the world winning awards of Forbes as "world's best website" for 5 years, Alibaba.com is offering RSS-based New Products,...
How are RSS feeds typically updated?, i.e.: - are old elements removed? (if so, what is the ageing process?) - how do you deal with publishing multiple times...
