Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

DJ, I totally agree.

There's no requirement that an aggregator do anything at all with any part
of RSS.

How do I know? Because there would be no way to enforce such a requirement,
nor would it be a weblike thing to do.

My.UserLand certainly doesn't pay attention to all parts of RSS. And neither
does My.Netscape.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "DJ Adams" <dj.adams@gmx.net>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff


> > a) Optional versus mandatory items -- If an RSS supplier includes an
> > <textInput> or <image> element, am I as an agreggator "required" to
render
> > those items when I render the channel?
> >
> > a1) On a sideways-related topic, is the "implied contract" between
> supplier
> > & aggregator that the aggregator will always render the supplied items
> > grouped into a channel as they were provided? Or can I provide users
with
> a
> > search capability that allows extraction of individual syndicated items
> from
> > a channel without rendering the whole thing?
>
> FWIW, I think the answers should be (a) NO and (b) NO, YES.
>
> Basically I can see nothing (correct me if I'm wrong) that says that RSS
> data must be rendered [in human readable form, e.g. HTML] anyway.
>
> dj
> (neither an active supplier nor aggregator)
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