Clinton Gallagher wrote:
> The RSS 2.0 specification is ambiguous. The specification [1] clearly states
> how to represent the values but fails to indicate how to delineate a
> collection of values. Commas? Spaces? Other?

Other, repeated elements.
<skipHours><hour>8</hour><hour>9</hour></skipHours>

> Finally, as a point of discussion which ahs probably been argued in the past
> the specification fails to indicate how the channel for a restaurant or deli
> for example may or may not indicate skipped hours on such and such a day(s)
> while skipping other hours on this day and that day instead while skipping
> days entirely on this day and that day. Clear as mud ;-)

Yep, if you want that granularity, you'll want to design something new,
all the while remembering how very, very few aggregators support
skipHours/skipDays, and how your new thing will get even less support.
And it's even less granular than you may be thinking since "days" that
are skipped probably have to be assumed to be days in UTC, so depending
on how far away from Europe you are, the overlap between your day and
the skipped day may be pretty poor.

I'll leave it up to someone else to do the standard "mod_syndication is
so much better specified" (without mentioning that it is probably even
less widely supported).

Phil Ringnalda