rss-public : Message: Re: [rss-public] Re: RSS Profile 1.13 Published

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 harmless."

If you're suggesting that a core element SHOULD NOT include attributes from a namespace (rather than MUST NOT), what are you basing that on? I can't find any wiggle room in the spec.

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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

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
sa3ruby

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

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
sa3ruby

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
randymorin

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
rcade

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
sa3ruby

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
randymorin

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
mark.woodman

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
sa3ruby

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
randymorin

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
sa3ruby

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
rcade

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
randymorin

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
sa3ruby

Oct 4, 2006
2:35 pm

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