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Reply | Forward Message #1649 of 1975 |
Re: [rss-public] Re: The Profile and the Feed Validator

Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
>
> On 10/9/07, Sam Ruby <rubys@...
> <mailto:rubys%40intertwingly.net>> wrote:
> > Draft news item, conditionally scheduled to coincide with the completion
> > of the vote:
> >
> > http://beta.feedvalidator.org/news/ <http://beta.feedvalidator.org/news/>
> >
> > These changes to the feedvalidator can go live at any time. If there is
> > interest, I can commit the changes immediately prior to the announcement
> > so that announcement itself can mention that the feedvalidator changes
> > are live.
> >
> > As always, let me know if there are any questions or concerns.
>
> Looks good. The "misplaced Item" link is broken; it should be to this:
>
> http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html
> <http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html>

Fixed. Thanks!

> Like the other warnings, the "items with more than one enclosure"
> warning ought to lead with language from the RSS Profile, such as
> these parts:
>
> "Support for the enclosure element in RSS software varies
> significantly because of disagreement over whether the specification
> permits more than one enclosure per item. Although the author intended
> to permit no more than one enclosure in each item, this limit is not
> explicit in the specification. ... For best support in the widest
> number of aggregators, an item SHOULD NOT contain more than one
> enclosure."
>
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-enclosure
> <http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-enclosure>

Done.

> If you take the changes live before the vote ends Monday morning, and
> the vote passes, I will mention the validator update in the
> announcement.

If it continues to look like the vote will pass on Sunday night, I
commit the changes to SVN at that time, and schedule it for automated
deployment sometime between 7:20 and 7:30 Monday morning. Let me know
if a different schedule would be better for you.

- Sam Ruby



Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:01 pm

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... Looks good. The "misplaced Item" link is broken; it should be to this: http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html Like the other...
Rogers Cadenhead
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Oct 10, 2007
10:26 am

... Fixed. Thanks! ... Done. ... If it continues to look like the vote will pass on Sunday night, I commit the changes to SVN at that time, and schedule it...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 10, 2007
1:01 pm

... EDT: http://tinyurl.com/2klaft - Sam Ruby...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 10, 2007
1:33 pm

... I think that's going too far. The issue is far more complicated than the profile might suggest. The idea was to make a simple recommendation that had a...
James Holderness
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Oct 6, 2007
4:06 pm

... I previously was told that "We will vigorously defend the profile's guidance". It that guidance is as incomplete as you indicate, then I would then...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 6, 2007
5:16 pm

... The section you're raising concerns about has been in the profile for more than a year. As far as I'm concerned, it's fine in its present form. The ...
Rogers Cadenhead
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Oct 6, 2007
6:57 pm

... Independent of how long that text has been in place in the drafts, as far as I'm concerned the document has yet to be ratified by this group. ... That's...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 6, 2007
7:51 pm

... I was initially in favour of more detail, but the argument was made that too much information would just be confusing, and I think that's a valid point. We...
James Holderness
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Oct 7, 2007
6:13 am

... Citation? ... From what I can recall, the current text is based on what works best with existing, popular aggregators. Or to put it another another way, ...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 7, 2007
4:23 pm

... I don't see the connection here. If I'm a feed publisher who believes HTML is OK in channel-description, I could also be using &#x; entities in elements I...
rcade
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Oct 7, 2007
5:38 pm

... Theoretically? Sure. Question: can you cite even a single example in the wild? The latter question is relevant because I believe that the rationale behind...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 7, 2007
8:41 pm

I've taken a first pass at seeing what the scope of the changes are for the Feed Validator to fully support the profile: ...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 8, 2007
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... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/1491 ... It depends what you're trying to represent. For most titles, there are several forms of...
James Holderness
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Oct 8, 2007
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... I think that's backwards. Here's a title: <title>I bought some AT&amp;T; it went up.</title> With some aggregator/browser combinations, there will be an...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 8, 2007
11:21 pm

... I don't follow. In both cases, the feed first has to pass through an XML parser which will decode the "&amp;" or "&#x26;" and return the string "I bought...
James Holderness
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Oct 9, 2007
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... This list is helpful. I've made fixes so that none of the above should generate messages. If you find a feed that does generate a message, let me know. -...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 9, 2007
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... I'm finding it difficult to test stuff on the validator at the moment. Sometimes I'll get a warning for a particular test case, but when I add a second...
James Holderness
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Oct 9, 2007
2:50 am

... Fixed. And thanks for the comments[1] so far on the "orange" items on my list. Initial implementation of all of the "yellow" items is now complete and...
Sam Ruby
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