Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Paulo Gaspar <Paulo.Gaspar@krankikom.de> wrote:

> There are a lot of private little "RSS processors" and this standard
> does not care much about them.

That's not true. The authors were clearly _very_ concerned about backwards
compatibility. There's a lot of junk in the spec that I'd like to see taken
out, but can't be removed because of backwards-compatibility. If you have an
RSS 0.9 processor that doesn't work with this spec, let the authors know --
perhaps they can change things.

> Those that do not need the most complex features should not to have to
> "pay" with complexity for them.

Agreed, and I don't think they do. The core RSS items have not been changed
-- there is no added complexity to use them.

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