At 09:05 AM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
James Robertson wrote:
In practice, this objection is meaningless. There are a number of namespaced modules that are used in RSS 2.0, and most aggregators understand them. And the ones that don't bypass them without a problem.
If you are right, I take this as meaning RSS2.0 Atom doesn't require extensibility. They only require modularity, which XML+Namespaces provides.
For the most common use case - news updates - that's the case. I can't really speak to other potential uses. However, I tend to take a dim view of functionality that is intended for "future needs" - we tend to be very bad at predicting real future needs
cheers Bill
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