Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94

["James Linden" <jlinden@lindensys.net>]

    I do have a DTD for my own flavor of RSS 0.94 - which I have been using
for a couple months. Included is a category element for the channel, too.
While I wrote this DTD on my own, and it is not official, it may put some
interesting thoughts into the discussion.

    Due to the rise of Dave's latest 0.94 initiative, I will probably have
to migrate my RSS feeds (RSS Engine, Snewp, etc) to another flavor, probably
full RDF (ick), so as not to confuse feed consumers, etc.

    I do see a use for the copyright element, particuarly since I have a
couple hundred scraped feeds, I can refer to the original site's copyright
information. It helps keep everyone happy.

DTD:  http://www.rssengine.com/dtd/rss-094.dtd
0.94 Feeds - http://feed.rssengine.com/

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond@voidstar.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:48 AM
Subject: [syndication] RSS 0.94


> I find it extraordinarily sad that the RSS 0.94 development effort is
> happening across multiple weblogs and multiple comment threads and not
> here. So having got that off my chest, here's my two pennyworth.
>
> I'd like to see:-
>
> - The 0.94 spec re-written in the style of the early RFCs, like rfc822
> for instance. These are models of clear, concise, accurate text that
> would be worth emulating.
>
> - A deliberate effort to remove all ambiguity. There are a number of
> places in the proposed spec where language is used that is very open to
> interpretation. For instance, my favourite; "<link> is the URL of the
> story." in the <item> description.
>
> - Notes on elements that are deprecated even though they are left in for
> compatibility.
>
> - A more complete sample and sample snippets that illustrate the use of
> every element.
>
> - Some commentary on common usage.
>
> - The removal of the restriction on using link types other than http and
> ftp. In particular, I can't see any good reason for banning https and I
> can think of (fairly bizarre!) applications where news and mailto would
> be handy.
>
> - A <category> tag on channel that is similar to <item><category>
>
> - A DTD and a set of recommendations of how to reference the DTD that
> can handle foreign character sets without breaking validating parsers.
>
> - A note deprecating the use of entity-encoded html in any element
> except <item><description>
>
> And finally, and somewhat contentiously,
>
> - The removal of the copyright notice. I cannot think of any good reason
> for a corporate copyright disclaimer on a standards specification.
>
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