The sentiment here is well founded. Though, it is unclear to me exactly why a new namespace is required or desired, aside from attempting to become...
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A. Pagaltzis
a22pag
Mar 7, 2006 7:26 pm
... Isn’t that called Atom? If not, in which way would the premises of this XRSS effort differ substatially from the premises that led to Atom, and in which...
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rcade
Mar 7, 2006 8:12 pm
... That's the big question. I've certainly heard from enough people the last month that the best way to clarify the RSS spec is to switch to Atom....
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rcade
Mar 7, 2006 9:00 pm
... When I began the draft spec, my philosophy was that the RSS specs on this page should be the only documents consulted to determine the proper definition of...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 7, 2006 9:13 pm
I've added schematron definitions from each element throughout the Wiki pages. http://www.socialtext.net/rssboard/member/index.cgi? spec_table_of_contents ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 7, 2006 9:17 pm
I'd make you Lord Master God of RSS, but I don't think that's within my powers. Dave Winer, can you do that? Assuming Dave won't ;-), can we move forward with...
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ecomputerd
Mar 7, 2006 10:08 pm
I think the defining RSS 2.0.2 with a specification and producing a Best Practices guide are not mutually exclusive. In fact they both serve to help support...
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rcade
Mar 7, 2006 11:20 pm
... Under that logic, should the word "should" also have less weight than it does in RFC 2119? Here's where it appears in the Harvard spec: 1. channel-title:...
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ecomputerd
Mar 8, 2006 12:58 am
... word "recommended" ... of ... than ... same ... the ... forwarding ... names." ... mandatory. ... MUST ... recommendations ... and ... RSS ... "Under that...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 8, 2006 1:19 am
... From section 4. All elements of an XRSS document that are not contained in a namespace must be described in this specification. All recommendations offered...
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rcade
Mar 8, 2006 1:34 am
... It was intentional. XRSS would accomplish more by allowing the minimal set of non-namespaced elements necessary to be valid RSS 2.0....
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James M Snell
jasnellspace
Mar 8, 2006 1:49 am
... I'm having a seriously hard time seeing the value in this. Granted, I a wee bit biased towards Atom, but I don't see how introducing another set of...
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A. Pagaltzis
a22pag
Mar 8, 2006 2:58 am
... Exactly my thoughts. XRSS cannot remove the need for implementing core RSS. All it can do is complicated the decision matrix for choosing between ...
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Andy Henderson
andyatcita
Mar 8, 2006 9:57 am
... Yup. That's where we can make the most useful contribution. If we do it right it will have a profound effect regardless of what the resulting document is...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Mar 9, 2006 1:30 am
5. Avoid using elements in namespaces when there are already core elements that do the same thing. ...
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rcade
Mar 9, 2006 11:43 am
... I'm aware that a potential namespace would cross the "funky feeds" issue, but the problem that motivated the draft spec and XRSS proposal is that doing the...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 9, 2006 12:49 pm
... Meanwhile, here is a very current, and very real example of a developer who is creating an RSS application whose public understanding of RSS needs to be...
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rcade
Mar 9, 2006 3:31 pm
I've published the first draft of a "best practices profile" for RSS, a set of recommendations for creating RSS documents that work in the widest audience of...
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rcade
Mar 9, 2006 3:40 pm
... Recommendations Support for the enclosure element in RSS software varies significantly because of disagreement over whether the specification permits more ...
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rcade
Mar 9, 2006 3:48 pm
... Recommendations "The description SHOULD NOT contain relative URLs, because the RSS format does not provide a means to identify the base URL of a document....
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 9, 2006 3:55 pm
... I've updated the Feed Validator to point to this. Example: http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/rss20/element-channel-item-enclosure/ - Sam Ruby...
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mark.woodman
Mar 9, 2006 8:57 pm
If appropriate, I would like to pitch in on the RSS profile. I recently helped out a ROME user who misunderstood the role of pubDate, so I figured I could...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 10, 2006 8:25 am
... Based on: http://www.bradsoft.com/support/faq/faqitem.asp?id=86 ... it might make sence for item/pubDate and item/title to be explored next. In...
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Nick Bradbury
bradbury_sof...
Mar 10, 2006 1:28 pm
That sounds like a good idea to me, Sam. In FeedDemon's case, when an item doesn't have a title one is automatically generated from the description. - Nick...
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ecomputerd
Mar 10, 2006 2:14 pm
FeederReader currently also uses the description when the title is missing. I HAVE been thinking about changing this, but it impacts very few users. Greg Smith...
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rcade
Mar 10, 2006 3:35 pm
The new draft of the profile includes a paragraph listing the aggregators being tested in the preparation of the document: ...
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rcade
Mar 10, 2006 3:39 pm
... Recommendations See the date-time section for general recommendations regarding date-time values in RSS. The specification recommends that aggregators...
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Mark Woodman
mark.woodman
Mar 10, 2006 3:49 pm
If anyone is looking for a sample of a feed without item/pubDate, I typically refer to this one: http://www.interglacial.com/rss/homestar.rss - M...
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rcade
Mar 10, 2006 3:53 pm
The new draft of the profile includes this section: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#data-types-datetime ... Requirements All date-time values MUST conform...
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rcade
Mar 10, 2006 3:56 pm
... I'll test feeds without item pubDates next along with Mark Woodman's suggestion for channel-pubDate and the other channel date elements. What are the...
