draft-1 says of the rss element "This element is required and must contain only one child: a channel element." which strikes me as eminently reasonable, and...
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Phil Ringnalda
philringnalda
Jan 31, 2006 4:38 am
Is it worth a few more words in draft-1 to make it clear that the <day> in <skipDays> is a UTC/GMT day, and that if you are a publisher in GMT-08:00, your...
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rcade
Jan 31, 2006 2:37 pm
... Corrected, thanks. Here's the revised rss section: This element is REQUIRED and MUST contain one child element: a channel element. The rss element MUST NOT...
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rcade
Jan 31, 2006 2:41 pm
... Going all the way back to Netscape 0.91, I can't find a spec that indicates the timezone to use for <day>. Because skipDays and skipHours have been...
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rcade
Jan 31, 2006 2:44 pm
An e-mailer asked of the spec language "The channel may contain each of the following optional elements ..." this question: "One each? (In other words, can you...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Jan 31, 2006 3:25 pm
... The Feed Validator will flag duplicate cloud elements. I've heard no complaints. It would be nice if the question of how many <enclosure> elements are ...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Jan 31, 2006 3:53 pm
... I haven't implemented skipDays (or skipHours for that matter) so this isn't really an answer to your question, but you may be interested to know my ...
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Phil Ringnalda
philringnalda
Jan 31, 2006 4:26 pm
... I found Dave's take from some previous discussion, probably <enclosure>, completely persuasive: the only sane way to interpret having some elements which...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Jan 31, 2006 4:34 pm
... Hopefully the goal of the proposed replacement is that such inferences are not necessary. In the proposed draft, it is exliclitly mentioned that...
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rcade
Jan 31, 2006 5:22 pm
... That's true. Aggregators are not forbidden from requesting the document during the times identified by skipDays and skipHours, by my read of the specs. The...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Jan 31, 2006 8:35 pm
... CDATA sections are part of the XML specification and since an RSS document MUST conform to that specification I would assume CDATA sections MUST be valid...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 1, 2006 2:25 am
... XML grammars (like RSS 2.0) are subsets of well-formed XML. If SOAP can disallow DOCTYPEs, then RSS *could* disallow CDATA. Note: I'm not suggesting...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 1, 2006 5:15 am
Just yesterday, somebody figured out how craft a trackback in such a way as to cause my comments feed to become invalid. I quickly fixed the problem, but I...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Feb 1, 2006 6:46 am
... FYI, I did a bit of testing on RSS relative references a while back to see how various aggregators handled the situation. Of the 15 I tested, 1 failed ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2006 3:40 pm
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. ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2006 3:48 pm
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....
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 1, 2006 4:26 pm
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 1, 2006 4:27 pm
... 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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2006 4:47 pm
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...
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rcade
Feb 1, 2006 4:49 pm
I've updated the proposed spec to reflect that all channel and item children except for category can't be present more than once: In channel: ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2006 4:50 pm
I created an OPML file of all RSS feeds for the board members and board Website and mailing lists. Did I miss anything? ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2006 5:15 pm
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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 1, 2006 5:50 pm
... The Feed Validator only has extended help pages for conditions that involve warnings or errors. Three such messages are specific to SkipHours and/or...
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rcade
Feb 2, 2006 4:13 pm
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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 2, 2006 4:32 pm
Just a clarification. <content:encoded> could include HTML. So could <xhtml:body>. Better wording might be... RSS elements, other than item description and RSS...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Feb 2, 2006 5:53 pm
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 2, 2006 5:55 pm
... 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 ...
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rcade
Feb 2, 2006 6:35 pm
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 2, 2006 6:45 pm
... 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...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Feb 2, 2006 6:47 pm
... 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...
