I've taken a first pass at seeing what the scope of the changes are for the Feed Validator to fully support the profile: ...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 8, 2007 10:11 pm
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 8, 2007 11:21 pm
... I think that's backwards. Here's a title: <title>I bought some AT&T; it went up.</title> With some aggregator/browser combinations, there will be an...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 9, 2007 12:01 am
... I don't follow. In both cases, the feed first has to pass through an XML parser which will decode the "&" or "&" and return the string "I bought...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 9, 2007 1:38 am
... 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. -...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 9, 2007 2:50 am
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 9, 2007 11:45 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 10, 2007 3:20 am
... Draft news item, conditionally scheduled to coincide with the completion of the vote: http://beta.feedvalidator.org/news/ These changes to the...
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Rogers Cadenhead
rcade
Oct 10, 2007 10:26 am
... Looks good. The "misplaced Item" link is broken; it should be to this: http://beta.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MisplacedItem.html Like the other...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 10, 2007 1:01 pm
... 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...
... I misunderstood. Looking those over, along with the spec ... http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt ... it does state that...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 13, 2007 4:00 pm
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2003/10/optimizing_your.html - Sam Ruby...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 16, 2007 1:22 pm
In section 5, there are a number of examples of <rss> elements that declare various namespaces. None of these examples contain the required version attribute....
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Oct 16, 2007 1:34 pm
There was no attempt to create valid XML in those fragments. They aren't even well-formed. The version attribute would only reduce the effectiveness of the...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 16, 2007 1:58 pm
... Effectiveness for what purpose? I don't know if you follow feedvalidator-users@googlegroups.com, but a lot of people who use the feed validator, and follow...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 16, 2007 2:13 pm
I don't think it's a big deal, but I tend to agree with Sam. It's not so much a validity issue as it is ease of use for beginners. I think many users will just...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Oct 16, 2007 9:18 pm
The following wordpress ticket is requesting a "2nd-opinion": http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5205 I don't know if there are any opinionated people subscribed...
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Rogers Cadenhead
rcade
Oct 16, 2007 9:54 pm
... None of my WordPress logins are working there. Is there a Trac signup page?...
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Geoffrey Sneddon
gsnedders
Oct 16, 2007 9:56 pm
... It's shared with the support forums on wp.org, so you need to sign-up there. - Geoffrey Sneddon...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Oct 20, 2007 11:10 pm
If you're going to give advice, put it in a feed advisor not a feed validator. You're confusing a lot of people who just want to use RSS and don't want to get...
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rcade
Oct 21, 2007 2:01 am
... The Feed Validator's check for atom:link is already starting to bear fruit. I'm hearing from blogging tool developers about what the element is and why...
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James M Snell
jasnellspace
Oct 21, 2007 3:24 am
Not to mention the fact that there is a really big difference between "need to fix" and "should fix". The feed still validates, so folks should feel free to...
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A. Pagaltzis
a22pag
Oct 21, 2007 7:11 am
... Are we talking about validator warnings or errors? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Oct 21, 2007 4:18 pm
Okay, I'm not going to argue with you, and I fully expect you to trash me on your blog (which I do read). But I should say this -- that after a few years of...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Oct 21, 2007 6:03 pm
Dave, Nearly two years ago when we kicked off this process, you and I were both concerned that it might be over-stretching as it was attempting to write a new...
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rcade
Oct 22, 2007 4:57 pm
I had to give James Holderness some props for his "Obfuscated Atom" post: http://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/blog/2007/10/obfuscated-atom The technique he's used to...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Oct 22, 2007 5:40 pm
... It could. I just chose Atom because "Obfuscated Atom" alliterates nicely. ... I'm still not convinced it's valid though. Regards James...
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Geoffrey Sneddon
gsnedders
Oct 22, 2007 6:28 pm
... As far as I can see it meets the validation criteria for XML. Rather odd test, though. - Geoffrey Sneddon...
