Hi Dave and All, We will not be switching to a non-RDF version of RSS for many reasons and we were happy with RDF till we discovered client side transformation [1] does not work with RDF file correctly in some browsers. Now I know everyone has a view about different RSS versions but for serving 41 different languages we have found RSS 1.0 much more flexible and well suited to our future plans.
I do take your point about the MIME type, however there are many examples of RSS and ATOM being served as different MIME types across the internet [2] and we feel its good to be compatible that right in some cases and right rather than compatible in others. What do I mean by the last comment? Well there's already thoughts about putting some non standard RSS elements/attributes into our RSS to aid with directionality on our Right to left languages such as Persian. This may not be right but its more compatible. Its also what a lot of Right to left writing bloggers do at this moment [3]. [1] - http://www0.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/index.xml [2] - http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/home.rss (RSS 1.0 served as application/xml) [3] - http://www.xslf.com/archives/downloads.xml Cheers, Ian Forrester | BBC World Service [New Media Software Engineer] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross > Sent: 27 June 2005 14:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Change of URL's for Language news feeds > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:33:30PM +0100, Ian Forrester wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just wanted to announce the change of URL for Language News feeds. > > > > The page http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/LanguageNews?v=tz1 > points to > > *.rdf named files which have changed to *.xml files now. (This page > > will be changed soon). > > Ian, > > I just wondered why you'd made that change. I assumed that it > would be that you had switched to using a non-RDF version of > RSS (like, RSS 2.0) but I see that you're still using RSS 1.0 > which is based on RDF. So using an extension of .rdf and > serving it with a MIME type of 'application/rdf+xml' would > seem like the right thing to do. > > Dave... > > -- > Stab a sorry heart > With your favourite finger > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
