Changes to our aggregation feed of all podcast RSS feeds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2010/04/podcast_opml_change.shtml
[plain text version follows] Podcast OPML - change Alan Ogilvie | 10:17 UK time, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 Just a quick note to say that the OPML formatted feed <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/04/opml_feed_of_podcasts.shtm l> that we have available for our Podcasts is having a slight format change. Because any change to the structure of an XML document like this will probably cause some minor headaches to you - we've set up a new feed in the new format, and kept the old one running for a while. This is notice that in a few weeks we'll simply redirect the old one to the new one. The new feed is available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/opml/bbc_podcast_opml_v2.xml A nice view of this <http://optimalbrowser.com/optimal.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2F radio%2Fopml%2Fbbc_podcast_opml_v2.xml&submit=Submit> can be seen via Optimal's OPML browser. A summary of the changes between the old (v1) and the new (v2): * We took out the top level 'BBC Station List' outline - it didn't make sense. So now the Radio Networks are the first thing in the XML. * We changed the outline node to better include the display name of the Radio network rather than the id - but kept the id for you in a new attribute called networkid. This makes it a bit more 'friendly' when just using a podcatcher that can directly read our OPML: o this (v1): <outline text="radio2" fullname="BBC Radio 2"> o to this (v2): <outline text="BBC Radio 2" fullname="BBC Radio 2" networkid="radio2"> * We changed the title of the OPML document for the same reason of 'friendliness' - from: o this (v1): BBC Podcast OPML o to this (v2): BBC Radio Podcasts * We didn't change outline/outline - the actual reference to the RSS feed for the podcasts. So you can be assured nothing changes there. As an example - here is a podcast outline picked from the latest feed - there is no difference from v1 to v2: o (v1): <outline type="rss" imageHref="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/assets/artwork/oddcast.jpg"; xmlUrl="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio2/oddcast/rss.xml"; imageHrefTVSafe="" text="Alex Lester's Oddcast" keyname="oddcast" active="true" allow="all" networkName="" networkId="" typicalDurationMins="15" page="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lester/"; flavour="Programme Highlights" rsstype="" rssenc="" language="en-gb" description="Alex Lester's latest musings on 'Alex World', featuring listener contributions, taken from his Best Time Of The Day show, broadcast weekdays on Radio 2, 2-5am." bbcgenres="Comedy & Quizzes|Entertainment"/> o (v2): <outline type="rss" imageHref="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/assets/artwork/oddcast.jpg"; xmlUrl="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio2/oddcast/rss.xml"; imageHrefTVSafe="" text="Alex Lester's Oddcast" keyname="oddcast" active="true" allow="all" networkName="" networkId="" typicalDurationMins="15" page="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lester/"; flavour="Programme Highlights" rsstype="" rssenc="" language="en-gb" description="Alex Lester's latest musings on 'Alex World', featuring listener contributions, taken from his Best Time Of The Day show, broadcast weekdays on Radio 2, 2-5am." bbcgenres="Comedy & Quizzes|Entertainment"/> -- Alan Ogilvie alan.ogil...@bbc.co.uk Platform Manager Future Media & Technology | Audio & Music | Mobile Room 818, BBC Henry Wood House, 3-6 Langham Place, London, W1B 3DF - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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