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RSS Profile 1.13 Published   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #955 of 1975 |
Re: RSS Profile 1.13 Published

This is exactly what I was afraid of. Please treat these as warnings,
not errors. The schema attribute is harmless.
Thanks,

Randy Charles Morin
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss


--- In rss-public@yahoogroups.com, "rcade" <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>
> I updated the RSS profile to reflect the spec's rule against extending
> core RSS elements with attributes in a namespace.
>
> The Introduction section now includes this sentence:
>
> "The elements defined in the specification MUST NOT be extended by
> attributes defined in a namespace."
>
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#introduction
>
> The RSS 2.0 specification includes an Extending RSS section that
> describes how the format can be extended by namespaces:
>
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#extendingRss
>
> "RSS originated in 1999, and has strived to be a simple, easy to
> understand format, with relatively modest goals. After it became a
> popular format, developers wanted to extend it using modules defined
> in namespaces, as specified by the W3C.
>
> "RSS 2.0 adds that capability, following a simple rule. A RSS feed may
> contain elements not described on this page, only if those elements
> are defined in a namespace."
>
> Because this language mentions elements and excludes attributes, the
> simplest read of the spec is that core elements cannot contain
> namespaced attributes.
>
> For those who are new to this list, the RSS Profile is a set of best
> practices for RSS we've been working on since March. New drafts are
> published for public comment -- if you agree or disagree with a
> revision, please let us know here on RSS-Public.
>








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I updated the RSS profile to reflect the spec's rule against extending core RSS elements with attributes in a namespace. The Introduction section now includes...
rcade
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Oct 3, 2006
9:17 pm

... One small niggle... that paragraph uses the word specification three times; the making the antecedent for the third reference unclear. - Sam Ruby...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 3, 2006
9:46 pm

... Thanks. I went ahead and fixed that without a revision upgrade: "The elements defined in the RSS 2.0 specification must not be extended by attributes...
rcade
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Oct 3, 2006
10:00 pm

... Cool. I'll look into implementing this with the Feed Validator, with the standard caveat that if the profile changes, I'll remove this restriction....
Sam Ruby
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Oct 4, 2006
1:05 am

This is exactly what I was afraid of. Please treat these as warnings, not errors. The schema attribute is harmless. Thanks, Randy Charles Morin ...
Randy Morin
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Oct 4, 2006
1:18 am

On 10/3/06, Randy Morin <randy@...> wrote: "This is exactly what I was afraid of. Please treat these as warnings, not errors. The schema attribute is...
Rogers Cadenhead
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Oct 4, 2006
1:38 am

... From a coding perspective, the difference between coding a check for a warning and coding a check for an error is inconsequential. I'll hold off for a few...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 4, 2006
1:43 am

If we call this an error, I'll propose a change to the spec to allow extension attribute. Please try and be civil instead of trying to create an issue. This is...
Randy Morin
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Oct 4, 2006
2:28 am

As a neutral third party on this matter, I would like to observer that everyone contributing to this thread has been quite civil and void of emotion. Giving...
Mark Woodman
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Oct 4, 2006
2:47 am

... I emphatically did *NOT* create this issue. When this was first brought to my attention in 2005, there was no obvious process for resolving these issues,...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 4, 2006
2:53 am

Sorry Dude, didn't mean to imply you were already uncivil. You weren't and I apologize. I only meant to head off the issue. I'm looking for a compromise here....
Randy Morin
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Oct 4, 2006
3:33 am

... Cool. For now, I've temporarily changed the severity level to a warning, but left the text of the message alone and committed and deployed the result. ...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 4, 2006
12:25 pm

My reply appears to have been eaten. I'm not figuring out something about this: What schema stuff is adversely affected by a prohibition against namespace...
Rogers Cadenhead
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Oct 4, 2006
12:41 pm

Examine the document element. I've removed extra stuffing to make it more obvious. <rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...
Randy Morin
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Oct 4, 2006
2:01 pm

... In all of my years of working with XML schemas, I was not aware of this particular attribute. But after a quick scan of the web, I came across a w3c...
Sam Ruby
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Oct 4, 2006
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