Re: [syndication] Re: Persistence of items

[Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:29:03PM -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> In RSS 1.0, the value of the rdf:about attribute is not supposed to change,
> even if the value of <link> (the actual link) does. In fact, the rdf:about
> doesn't even have to point to a real page, just as long as it does not
> change. So to all those of you with RSS 1.0 feeds out there: Don't change
> rdf:about!

good thing the spec and its examples make this clear.

people would probably find it confusing if the spec merely mentioned
that the rdf:about attribute should be identical in value to the
<link> sub-element, if possible.

*cough*

jim