On 26.11.2003, at 00:00, Max Horn wrote:
I changed our RDF style sheet to output unique rdf:about attributes (this is indeed required by the RDF spec).
Hmm. So far I can't see any difference...
I do not plan on making other suggested changes, as they really depend on whether on "believes" in RSS 0.9x, 1.0 (made by another team than 0.9x) or 2.0.
Well, I am definitely not religious here...
As long as the Fink RSS is RDF-based (which it is), the only standard that applies is in fact RSS 1.0. All others are not RDF-based and have a totally different structure. Including elements that are not contained in the RSS 1.0 specification will make parsing difficult if not impossible.
So far all RSS readers I tested work very well (and in fact, have worked before, too) with our RDF feed.
Well, NetNewsWire (one of the most popular client on the Mac) at least has problems and any other feed reader built-in into other sites will have problems as well unless they do not include tons of "quirks mode" code to deal with content not covered by the spec.
Several validators validate us just fine. And since there is no "RSS standard", I think that's about the best we can get.
There are RSS Standards. Two of them, unfortunately confusingly named. One is RSS 1.0 (based on RDF/XML), the other is RSS 2.0 (based on XML only). The RDF-based version is much easier to extend via namespaces and much more straightforward in terms of compliance with W3C-standards.
I am not trying to push you into something, but the example I provided is perfect RDF and RSS 1.0 as well. It will run not only in some tested RSS readers with quirks modes but with any RDF compliant tool. Just because a bunch of programs is able to deal with buggy code today doesn't make that bug any better.
Greetings Tim
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