--- Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> An interesting assertion. Care to comment on the
> cardinality of RSS2
> elements? I seem to recall recent debate on the
> number of enclosure
> elements allowed in an entry.
The spec implies that the cardinality is zero or one
but I could see how some language lawyer could claim
it is ambiguous.
What I find funny about people that complain about RSS
is that they always use the "asshole argument". If the
spec doesn't explicitly disallow something that is
implied to be disallowed then they make a hue and cry
about how it is broken.
As someone who's actually worked with a number of W3C
specs that contain stuff that is just plain broken I
find the so-called issues people have with RSS to
extremely minor nitpicks.
> There's an option for summaries and full content in
> Atom. Witness
> content:encoded in RSS1 and the use of atom:content
> and xhtml:body in
> RSS2. There's no option for content @src in RSS2,
> other than using
> atom:content.
RSS 2.0 has enclosures which make a lot more sense
than <content src=""> in syndication scenarios. Also
I've seen RSS 2.0 feeds that use content:encoded so
I'm not sure where you get the idea that its usage is
restricted to RSS 1.0
>
> Tim said "suspicion." This doesn't have anything to
> with Dave (who I
> just met at Bloggercon and found to be a pretty cool
> guy). Discomfort
> with the home of the RSS2 spec is not a personality
> squabble.
Really, who are the people that have this discomfort
who aren't people who've had personality conflicts
with Dave Winer? The major folks I've seen making a
hue and cry about this are the Blogger and Six Apart
folks who've beefed with Dave Winer.
PS: Quite frankly I'm not even sure why I'm opposing
this Pace. It would be amusing to watch if after all
the hubbub about Atom all it ended up being was a less
featureful but more complex clone of RSS.
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