(Randy will appreciate this one) I'm stating this with with respect to element-channel-item-comments, but it really applies to several elements (including...
Allowing for RSS elements defined in a namespace causes some sections of the draft specification to be less clear than they would be otherwise, because they...
So that everybody is clear that clarifications means new text and changes, I propose the version number in the rss element version attribute be set to 2.0.2....
Enclosure tests are online: http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/rss20/element-channel-item-enclosure/ I noted no new issues, only the global one of where...
I was running some feed tests this weekend and I thought some of you might be interested in the results. I know the sample set is far too small and the testing...
I've updated the proposed spec with edits pertaining to the cloud element. 1. Cloud elements can contain namespace children The last paragraph of the cloud...
Cloud testcases are now online. The process did not uncover any new glaring holes in the spec. http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/rss20/element-channel-cloud/...
All of tests for the definition of the channel element itself are online with the exception of tests relating to ratings elements. Ratings elements weren't in...
I don't expect any of these comments to be controversial at this point. 1) None of the child elements defined in 4.1.1.9 may be repeated. 2) title and...
Continuing my tour of RSS 2.0 elements, starting first with some of the least used elements, the next stop is textInput. The testcases for this element are...
RSS Draft 1.06 Change Notes 1. The permitted characters in a textInput name are spelled out A sentence has been added: "The name MUST begin with a letter and ...
... Hello Greg, I can provide use cases but for the sake of brevity I will simply explain how I understand -- or -- misunderstand this problem. We have two...
I just published RSS-Draft version 1.05, which incorporates the following changes: 1. day is now a REQUIRED subelement of skipDay and individual days MUST NOT...
I honestly thought that skipDays was going to be an easy place to start, and then I would move onto skipHours, see if this group really was serious and then...
What is the current point of view regarding the skipHours and skipDays elements? Neither can be used reliably to indicate time zones where the unit values are...
Here's some small changes I'd would like to include in the proposed spec. Thanks Rogers the new spec looks great and is getting even better, Randy 3.2 URLs I...
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...
The following RSS Advisory Board proposal has been made by members Rogers Cadenhead and Eric Lunt and seconded by Randy Charles Morin. Under the board charter...
The new draft of the proposed spec adds a paragraph to the item description section that relates to relative URLs: "The description SHOULD NOT contain relative...
In addition to the change regarding relative URLs, the new draft of the proposed spec incorporates these changes: 1. skipDays-day The day element changes "a...
Maybe I am off-topic by asking this question here. If so, please forgive me. I've gone through the podcasting module for RSS and I haven't seen an element that...
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...
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...
Thank you for the invitation to this group. I have not read the background of the entire issue at hand, but I can enlighten on one difficulty that may or may...
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...
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...
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...
