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...
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...
[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...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
[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 ...
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,...
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...
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...
I am reading this group using RSS and just noticed that Yahoo never returns 304 (unmodified), returning full feed content each time. Here is sample TCP dump: ...
... Yahoo! seems to intentionally generate the feed every time it is requested according to the timestamp, notice that the server time (Date: header) and the...
... <KlausRusch@a...> wrote: Yes, I know it is valid, but it is long considered to be a good practice to implement this to decrease bandwidth used by a feed....
... Yes, generally RSS feeds remain a fixed length of <item>s and as new <item>s are added to the front, old <item>s drop off the back. I maintain exactly 24...
The bandwidth concern and 304 processing is to protect the RSS publisher against incurring large undesirable bandwidth costs. If the RSS publisher, in this...
... It's also important to consider the "don't set a bad example" angle. It sets the development of tools back to have a major provider of data ignore ...
... wrote: Well said! As somebody who was involved with wireless software, I can confirm that downloading hundreds kilobytes of data over slow CSD or GPRS...
In other words, you agree they are not doing anything wrong, but you are exercising your right to complain anyway ;) Randy http://www.kbcafe.com ... angle. It...
I've just finished writing a aggregator that delivers RSS to Outlook: http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/ More information can be found there (less than I want, it...
Anyone know where to post problems with My Yahoo RSS ? I've got feeds that sporadically show up and disappear even though the content is fine on the RSS server...
Hi, if I publish newsfeeds the first time everything goes alright and aggregators retrieve them. But what do I do next? How do I add a fresh news? I tried to...
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