On Jan 12, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Graham wrote:
On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:39 am, Sam Ruby wrote:
Every version of RSS has this as a mandatory element. Every last one of them.
Except RSS 2.0:
"An item may also be complete in itself, if so, the description contains the text (entity-encoded HTML is allowed; see examples), and the link and title may be omitted"
Graham
It's weird, but true, and I suspect that every aggregator author has already taken this into account. There are indeed RSS 2.0 feeds that don't have <link> elements. An example is http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml
I don't think it would be a hardship were atom:link to be optional, given the circumstances. I myself would probably prefer it be required, but only because aggregator users expect that items will have permalinks.
-Brent
