Although the pubDate and lastBuildDate are not required, often RSS readers/aggregators will use these as hints to determine if the feed or items within the...
I can't vouch for other aggregators, but FeederReader parses all feeds that are downloaded. It does not look at lastBuildDate at all. It uses pubDate of...
Hi: I'm new and would like to know if anyone can help me out with a RSS problem. I'm trying to embed the following HTML code into my RSS feed. I can do this...
A question: what happens if there is not pubData OR lastBuiltDate? According to the RSS 2.0 spec it seems that they are not required elements. In my case,...
I think the lastBuildDate is very appropriate for the current time when the RSS file is created. I would hope that any aggregator developer would design their...
From: "yakovs" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> ... The spec is widely considered "less than ideal". If you need to use a more refined spec you'd do well to look at...
... You can't embed scripts into RSS feeds. Most, if not all, readers won't use it. For many reasons the most important being security. The main reason...
I need a bit of info here. I have currently gotten 14562 hits from a number of RSS news aggregators. Can any one here give me a general idea as to how many...
Maybe I'm just crazy. But I can't seem to get my rss file to open. www.lcr-mi.org/rss.php I keep getting: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in...
Anytime you use an atttribute or element value you need to follow XML's rules. For URLs you should HTML encode them. This is true for any URL not just for...
I'm about to start a new Blog with an RSS feed, and I'd appreciate some guidance. If I update an article, should I update the original <item> with a new...
RSS 2.0 spec says that type attribute is "a standard MIME type". I am wondering, is it permitted for type to include parameters, as in MIME types per RFC 2046....
Hello, I'm publishing my own RSS feed and generating using XML::RSS in perl. Which field (element) in the RSS2.0 spec maps to the 'Subject' column in RSS...
Hi, Does anyone know how well supported the syndication module is, in RSS 2.0. Is it worth the effort (and extra bandwidth) to add the following? Thanks, Nick...
Dear friends I want to add my yahoo group rss feed in my homepage - i have the rss feed url. but i dont know how to add in my index.html page. any help ? ...
All, My name is Jake, and I've just signed up. I am developing a ColdFusion blogging application (www.countersinkdg.com) and am trying to offer my users the...
Hi. What is the best practice or recommendation for dealing with feeds containing future dates? The RSS external feeds parser on LiveJournal uses 'the Dublin...
Hi, If the site wants to send the description of items in a different font how can we specify the font needed for the item? The spec does not have a font...
No, RSS is not a presentation syntax. It's text and, to some degree, simple HTML formatting. If you want fonts, use a web page. Same thing with CSS. -Bill...
I dont know if i have put the question correctly. say, how will a chinese web site provide rss feed? how will it describe the description of the item? so the...
Hi all, I'd like to clarify what is an assumed interpretation of <skipDays> element. RSS 2.0 specification says that it may contain up to seven sub-elements ...
Can anybody tell me why the the spec requires the enclosure url to be http? "The url must be an http url." Why? This seems a totally arbitrary rule. Why not...
A stab in the dark: RSS is retrieved using HTTP, so in order to ensure the aggregator can pull the file, HTTP is required. This helps to prevent an enclosure ...
Hi all, I am trying to take the RSS feed of my blog (http://www.phatpage.org/news/rss.xml) and get it to display as neat, formatted HTML in a browser (rather...
The specifications are ambiguous with regard to using category domain attributes as the sample from the specifications is shown in the subject of this RFI. Can...
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