Re: [RSS-DEV] Consensus on feed generator?

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:

> So, after last week's thread, has there been a consensus on what
> format would be useful?
> 
> The thread:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/2347
> 
> We've got 4 toolkits reporting just over 850 feeds.  The parser's
> not yet reporting the stats from a few others.
> 
> I'd like to move forward on this idea.  Several toolkit authors have
> inquired about what format to use.  I'd like to avoid recommending
> something only to have it change next week.

I don't recall any suggestions to change or negative comments to the
admin module proposal, so for RSS 1.0 feeds:

  xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/";

  <admin:generatorAgent>


I've uploaded the proposal to the RSS 1.0 proposed modules directory
as a more permanent location:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/Modules/Proposed/mod_admin.html

Two things to note:

  1) RSS 1.0 generators use a URI or URL to refer to the software and
     version (if there's additional metainformation about the
     software, using this resource as a URL is a great idea).

  2) This module also proposes an <admin:errorReportsTo> which is
     synonymous with the RSS 0.9x element <webMaster>, and should also
     be evangelized to RSS 1.0 feeds.

 -- Ken