Re: [syndication] Re: Ads in RSS

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>Wait a minute, is anyone who's using RSS feeds passing the text
>unchanged to an HTML control? Bad idea. Bad, bad idea. Passing
>
>   <img ...>
>   <img ...>

Well, then you get into problems with items that have more than one link, 
or have embedded links into their feed. I was under the impression that 
older RSS feeds could not have multiple <link>'s. So that in something like:

  <link>http://www.disobey.com/morbus/
  <description>"hi! i live here[1], here[2] and here[3]..."

where each number is link, as well as the master link defined, only one of 
those four links is shown. In this case, we'd be losing important 
contextual information.

You get into the same trouble with <scriptingNews> where you have to 
construct the link html yourself, as they specify the link and the text 
that the link should surround.

  <link>
    <url>http://www.internetworld.com/031501/03.15.01interview1.jsp</url>
    <linetext>I'm interviewed</linetext>
  </link>

In this case, sure, you could convert it over into an RSS-like feed by 
taking the just throwing "url" into <link>, but you get into the same 
problem (or misunderstanding, perhaps) of not multiple <link>'s.


Morbus Iff
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