This is likely an area where we can clear up the spec. We have several options, of which two are... -Specify the handling of these elements more precisely. ...
Here's Dave's thoughts on the issue... http://archive.scripting.com/2004/12/21#multipleenclosuresOnRssItems ...which align with Phil's and I agree with y'all....
... You agree to what? The original intended meaning of the spec, or that the proposed revision could make this clearer? Hopefully both, as the fact that it...
... First, kudos for being willing to at least vocalize the tough decisions that need to be made. Proposal: a change is made to the Feed Validator to flag the...
The new spec should specify exact cardinality and it should be zero or one for the channel and item optional elements that are not specifically referred to in...
Sam, Do you already have extended help pages in the FeedValidator for <skipX>? If so, then would you mind sharing how many pageviews you get? Thanks, Randy...
... The Feed Validator only has extended help pages for conditions that involve warnings or errors. Three such messages are specific to SkipHours and/or...
The history of HTML markup in Really Simple Syndication: * 0.91 (Netscape): "We ... are not allowing any HTML markup beyond the commonly used entities such as...
Just a clarification. <content:encoded> could include HTML. So could <xhtml:body>. Better wording might be... RSS elements, other than item description and RSS...
... I agree that's probably the most accurate way of interpreting the spec, however it's worth considering the following quote from Wikipedia: "Userland's RSS...
... The key words in that sentence are "defined in the RSS 0.91 DTD". See below. ... The question as to whether or not a given element in an RSS document can ...
... Is it your belief that an author of an RSS document must be able to express the content type of an element's character data (text or HTML) for aggregators...
... Not at all. From http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/05/28/detente If the spec were to be updated to merely say how various textual elements SHOULD be...
... Not at all. From http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/05/28/detente If the spec were to be updated to merely say how various textual elements SHOULD be...
... I know of two which don't: Firefox (market share: ~10-20% depending) and IE7 (market share: nearly all the rest, at some point in the future). That's a...
... As Rogers points out, careful reading of history would indicate that the intention of the spec is that item/description is the only element which is to be...
... Bah. I just uninstalled IE7 earlier today. Was causing too many problems on my system. Firefox I don't usually test. Should have known those would be the...
... I cheat, and use browser statistics rather than feed statistics when it suits me. There's no way of guessing what percentage of eventual IE7 users will use...
... Fair enough. I don't think feedburner's statistic are necessarily any better. I was just hoping somebody might have published a new study or something...
... True. I have test cases for a lot more than just simple markup in a title and aggregators vary quite widely in their range of interpretation (for example...
As Sam Ruby has pointed out, Loïc Le Meur's name is a good test of a simple encoding issue faced by RSS publishers: When a word contains a character with a...
... At the moment (and as your results confirm) best interoperability is obtained when titles are single escaped. If clarifications emerge from this process,...
... That's a good idea. I'd like to set one up on rssboard.org, preferably driven on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP like the rest of the site. Any recommendations?...
... For your purposes, http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ may be best: "Installation of PhpWiki is as simple as untarring the source distribution. PhpWiki works...
... I haven't had a chance to try your specific tests but I have done some escaping tests (titles only) on various aggregators which might be of interest to...
... Until you want to include a less-than character, and then nothing works consistently. Rogers has been pursing the original intent of the specs in a manner ...
