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Re: [syndication] Re: Persistence of items



In article <995uep+9m9i@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>This wouldn't be a problem if items included a 'perma-link' to the 
>original source of the data.  The RDF 1.0 spec seems to have some 
>kind of support for this via a <link> tag for each <item>.  In theory 
>this could be unique.  But it would requires the various aggregating 
>tools to preserve this value.  How many do this currently?

Much the easiest would be to just check the link field. But there's a
whole class of RSS feeds that don't publish a link field at all (RSS
0.92) and another whole class of sites that use temporary links to track
hit sources. Such a shame.

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