Re: [syndication] Re: robots.txt and rss

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

> Feed ID 1866 ( http://linuxtoday.com/backend/my-netscape.rdf ) - identified
> as RSS 1.0 on the feed info page, but with a default namespace of
> http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/ that's 0.90 (I found it by googling
> for the 0.90 namespace). You aren't trying to identify 0.90 by version="",
> are you? I see that's listed as a tag with zero feeds using it, but AFAIK
> 0.90 didn't have a version attribute, just the namespace.

The feed wraps itself in rdf:RDF tags.   That's not an RSS-0.9x format feed.
The feed, however, doesn't contain anything 1.0-like.  So thus it's indeed more
appropriately listed as an 0.9 feed.

A SQL query against the most recent poll indicates there are 285 feeds in the
most recent poll that possess the 0.9 namespace.

The 285 number comes from a list of currently polled feeds.  The version
counters, however, only come from feeds in Syndicated state.  So there's the
chance (likely) that some of those 285 are already marked as in need of repair.
That wouldn't affect the 1.0 verson count.  An SQL query against the latest poll
shows 1160 using the full RSS-1.0 namespace URI.  I didn't do a query against
things with RDF and other namespaces.  What's with the other 143 feeds is
anybody's guess.

If this is a pissing match about version numbers then the 1.0 count may well be
off.

If you want to get into a numbers game then look at the toolkit counts.  There's
only 4509 that list a toolkit.  This leaves well over 5,000 that don't list a
toolkit.
http://www.syndic8.com/stats.php?Section=feeds

-Bill Kearney