Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

zac <zac@pixelgeek.com> wrote:

> I can currently create an RSS091 or RDF
> reader in Shockwave in about 15 minutes. If I had to work around the idea of
> namespaces then I don't think it would currently be possible in Director (or
> REALbasic the other tool I use from XML work) without adding a sizeable
> amount of overhead to the code.

I think there's a misunderstanding here -- the namespaces are only optional
additions -- you can completely ignore them if you don't want to parse them,
you'll still be left with the important RSS stuff. RSS 1.0 is designed to be
backwards-compatible with 0.9, if you can't parse the new stuff (like
namespaces or RDF) just ignore it and you'll be fine. Do 1.0 files break
your parser? If so, you may want to bring that up as an issue to the RSS-DEV
list so that they know.

You also may want to start using a real programming environment. ;-) Just
kidding!

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