Re: [syndication] Re: [radio-userland] First 24 hours completed

[Mike Krus <mkrus@newsisfree.com>]

Julian Bond wrote:

> Some of the entries also underscore the divergence in the RSS community
> from the 0.9x end. Take a look at this for instance:
> http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/users/dave@userland.com/rss/rss.xml
> Here we have an 0.92 feed where the items have no <title> and no <link>.
> This is of course valid 0.92 as both fields became optional in this
> version. 
>
> Many aggregators written to 0.90/1 would have problems displaying this
> at all, at all.
maybe aggregators are wrong ;-)



But it leads to twisted results: many RSS .92 feeds have a description
field containing
    <A href="somelink">sometitle</a> somedescription

What's the justification for not using RSS .91 for those feeds ????
(besides the fact that Radio Userland cannot build them ;-) )


Mike