Re: State of unique IDs on newsfeed items?

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> I think this was the motivation (in part) for using RDF for RSS 1.0.
> Or am I misreading your goals?

Well, without reopening THAT can of worms, yes.  

I'm no RDF module expert so correct me when I'm wrong.  The modules 
involved in that format support an item having a link.  

I'm asking as to whether the various tools out there used to create 
and deliver newsfeeds are supporting unique IDs for their items.  As 
links back to both the HTML presentation and to an XML structure.

This a chicken and the egg situation.  Some formats do not currently 
support a unique ID on their items.  So if one was delivering 
material based on such a format it would, perhaps, be pointless to 
make any effort to handle unique IDs.  This is also affected by the 
clients not expecting to handle anything new.  So we're at a 
stalemate.  

How many of the clients out there that aren't using RDF would break 
if other elements started appearing in the XML?

Is it now, or will it be anytime soon, the time to consider 
implementing this for existing tools and feeds?  

-Bill Kearney