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...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 27, 2004 11:28 pm
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: ...
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Klaus Johannes Rusch
krusch
Dec 27, 2004 11:34 pm
... 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...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 28, 2004 12:36 am
... <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....
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 28, 2004 5:43 am
... 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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 28, 2004 5:50 am
The bandwidth concern and 304 processing is to protect the RSS publisher against incurring large undesirable bandwidth costs. If the RSS publisher, in this...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Dec 28, 2004 2:11 pm
... 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 ...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 28, 2004 5:41 pm
... 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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 29, 2004 3:18 pm
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...
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shporer
Dec 30, 2004 8:04 am
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...
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Graeme Wallace
gwwallace2001
Jan 7, 2005 5:48 am
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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Jan 10, 2005 4:30 pm
FAQ - http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html#sharefdbk Hope this helps, Randy http://www.kbcafe.com ... the...
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Alexei Shilin
a_shilin
Jan 20, 2005 8:27 am
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...
