There was discussion in the time leading up to the vote on the 1.0 version of the profile about work for the second edition (which was referred to as "1.1")...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 22, 2008 2:46 pm
... The validator message in this case is correct as it reflects the behavior specified by the relevant specifications. ... Both RSS 1.0 and the Atom formats...
1708
Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Feb 22, 2008 6:00 pm
... You're assuming that information would be something you could reliably extract from such a thing. You cannot. It's a common mistake, to assume timezone...
1709
James Holderness
james_holder...
Feb 23, 2008 1:36 pm
... In an RSS 2.0 feed, yes. The RSS 2.0 spec clearly says that dates should be in the form described in RFC 822 (with the additional requirement that years ...
1710
gunnarsunshine
Feb 23, 2008 9:04 pm
It appears that implementing an RSS news reader may be a lot of work to do. At least when one reads the web page ...
1711
Alan Dean
alan_james_dean
Feb 23, 2008 9:05 pm
... James is correct. ... GMT [1] and UTC [2] have been the same thing since 1972 (also referred to as 'Zulu' time - hence the 'Z' you sometimes see appended...
1712
rcade
Feb 23, 2008 9:18 pm
... I think it would be a mistake to begin a new version of the profile so soon. If people think it's a moving target, they'll be less likely to implement the...
1713
James Holderness
james_holder...
Feb 23, 2008 9:40 pm
... I don't believe there's anything factually inaccurate on that page, however the practical implications are vastly overstated, assumedly for dramatic ...
1714
Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 23, 2008 10:09 pm
I wouldn't worry about malformed feeds either. Rmail never tried to parse malformed feeds. Whenever a user brought it up, I pointed to the validators and CCed...
1715
Rogers Cadenhead
rcade
Feb 24, 2008 12:48 am
Mark Pilgrim (the author of that article) has created an open source library for parsing RSS feeds that takes all of the incompatibilities and other issues...
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Geoffrey Sneddon
gsnedders
Feb 26, 2008 8:33 pm
... I don't think that's true — people are still implementing WCAG 1.0 despite 2.0 getting closer to being to a REC. Also, I think if it's on a timescale of...
1717
rcade
Mar 3, 2008 3:29 pm
I've found a RSS publisher whose network of sites extends the item element with two namespace attributes. I brought it up on the Feed Validator user's list: ...
1718
scamden
Mar 3, 2008 10:02 pm
I agree that properly namespaced extensions to core elements should not flag a warning, as a general principle in XML namespacing....
1719
Jimmy Zhang
jzhang_ximpl...
Mar 7, 2008 8:11 pm
Version 2.3 of VTD-XML (http://vtd-xml.sf.net), the next generation document-centric XML processing model, is now released. To download the latest version...
1720
Addison Phillips
apphillips2000
Mar 16, 2008 12:33 pm
Hi, In browsing the Best Practices profile [1], I note that the definition of language in RSS is a bit stale. In particular, the profile implies that only ISO...
1721
mauvecat.geo
Mar 16, 2008 12:33 pm
How about minor changes like recommending that multiple catigories on one item or channel be kept together? ... 1.0 ... was ... profile so ... likely to ... on...
1722
mauvecat.geo
Mar 16, 2008 12:33 pm
I have been reading through the discussions on the Profile and it occurred to me that the concept of coding style would be appropriate to introduce somewhere....
1723
Dave Winer
dwiner
Mar 25, 2008 11:53 pm
A possible addition for a future profile. File names should probably not be greater than 31 characters in length for compatibility with OSes that don't allow...
1724
Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 26, 2008 1:03 am
I would prefer to go w/ 11 character filenames so that we can support MS-DOS as well. Smiley face. Randy...
1725
Ryan Parman
skyzyxufks
Mar 26, 2008 1:34 am
Mac OS 9 (and earlier) had a 31 character limit, and is deprecated and no longer supported by it's maker. If we DO choose to add filename limits (which isn't...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 26, 2008 3:28 am
Since Mac has now deprecated 31 character limits, then we should make certain all RSS URLs are 32 character or longer ;-) Randy ... and ... bad...
1727
Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Mar 26, 2008 12:55 pm
This is a bad idea. The local software should be handling this. Best to leave it to the standard offered by the transport used to deliver it. Leave it to...
1729
scamden
Mar 26, 2008 9:04 pm
I agree. The feed consumer should be able to dovetail with whatever filename-shortening mechanism the host OS supports. ... Best to ... it. Leave ... ...
1730
Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Mar 27, 2008 12:03 am
... I second the motion. But realistically, his narcissistic personality makes that utterly impossible....
1731
Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 27, 2008 12:14 am
To be serious for a second, I think it might be a good idea to mention in the profile the issue Dave raises here. We don't actually have to recommend anything....
1732
rcade
Mar 27, 2008 2:28 pm
Nat Lanza recently wrote on Twitter, "Dear weblog authors: I pretty much never want to have to figure out *which* of your feeds to subscribe to. Pick a format...
1733
Aristotle Pagaltzis
a22pag
Mar 27, 2008 3:38 pm
... At the very least, it should be strongly recommended that if a feed is offered in multiple formats, the `title` attributes of all the autodiscovery links...
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Ryan Parman
skyzyxufks
Apr 4, 2008 4:28 pm
[Cross-posting between lists. Original thread: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/message/1105 ] ... Honestly, I don't know that there IS an...
1735
Victor Porton
victorporton
Apr 23, 2008 3:52 pm
Somewhere I've viewed an RSS (if I remember correctly RSS 2.0) file with single <category> tag but two categories separated with '+' sign. Something like this:...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Apr 23, 2008 4:34 pm
It would be incorrect to interpret this as two categories. It's actually one category called "Music + Dreams". Two categories should be two category elements....
