Hi Aaron,

Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
> > So, what is a 'channel' anyway? What is the thing being described?
> >
> > Someone suggested that the channel *is* the RSS file - and that the URL of
> > the RSS file should be used for the rdf:about.
>
> Agreed, for 1.0 I believe we should set rdf:about for the channel to "" and
> look towards a URI representation in a later version. This usage of "" is
> valid RDF, and is used in an example in the RDF spec.
>
> I hereby propose to set the rdf:about attribute of the channel element to be
> required to be "", meaning the RDF document itself.
>
> Does anyone have any complaints with this change?

Yes, I have ;)

While I agree that a good practice would be to set this attribute to a
URI where you can usually find the channel, I don't think we should
hardwire it to the location where the channel is when you process it.

Doing so means that if you save a RSS feed locally and work on the saved
version, you will have in your RDF triples a value set to something like
"file:/myfilesystem/saved.rss" which is meaningless.

Eric
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