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Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.



Mark Alexander <malexander@acm.org> wrote:

> Having looked at both versions of RSS, I am confused. We are losing the
> hierarchy of data elements within the RSS structure and instead creating this
> Hierarchy with the <inchannel> tag.

We're not losing it -- just trying to maintain backwards-compatibility with
RSS 0.9. I'm sure the spec authors would have liked to keep it, but they
couldn't if they wanted to remain backwards-compatible.

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