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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Danny Ayers
danny_ayers
Apr 17, 2004 9:32 am
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...
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...
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Tony
tonypro777
Mar 18, 2004 10:56 pm
Hello everyone, Can I use RSS with Frontpage? thanks!...
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Jeff Barr
jeffbarr_2000
Mar 10, 2004 2:23 pm
The Syndic8 Documents collection contains a section on Toolkits: http://www.syndic8.com/documents/toolkits/ There should be some suitable toolkits in there. ...
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swschilke
Mar 10, 2004 8:03 am
HI, I am looking for a recomendation of a RSS reading library. Something like Macromedia's DNRK Vol.4 RSSU (RSS untangeled in Java) maybe open source. If not...
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Phil Ringnalda
philringnalda
Mar 8, 2004 10:27 pm
... <et cetera, ad infinitum /> Is there a list owner in the house? All you have to do is go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSS2-Support/message/503 and you...
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alan
akbakb2000
Mar 5, 2004 10:53 pm
I've started producing a feed with enclosures for the video blog I run, I was hoping for some feedback on how its working out from end users. I'm particularly...
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subway01y
Mar 2, 2004 8:42 pm
Great thanks, Dino It's very useful information...
