Yes, it's supposed to have a trailing slash. I'll try to get the
examples updated. Can you point me to the google/youtube feeds that
have it without and I'll try to contact some individuals to change it.

--- In rss-media@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Hinde" <kevin.hinde@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> this has come up on the list before
> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/message/953) but would it
> be possible to resolve the issue of whether the media RSS namespace has
> a trailing slash or not? The Yahoo spec says that it does, and
> http://feedvalidator.org/ warns if you omit it, but the examples in the
> Yahoo spec all have http://search.yahoo.com/mrss. It looks like some
> implementors (including Google/YouTube) are basing their code on the
> examples rather than the spec text. It may seem a minor detail but it
> has given us an interop problem - at least one RSS consumer does not
> recognise our media extensions because we advertise the namespace with a
> trailing slash.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin.
>
> --
> Kevin Hinde
> BBC News Interactive
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