"read it" I should. I did. I read the RSS 1.0 standard, not the output of a validator that doesn't get the point and doesn't test the necessary RDF structure completely. And I read the output of my RSS reader and it is confused by fink's feed.
I don't really understand why nobody understands that the RSS fink is deeply broken. I have pointed out the errors. The output of feedvalidator is no help.
The most obvious bug and the one that made me do the bug report was that the <item> elements lack a unique resource URI and that the <channel> element misses it's basic element: the <items> RDF sequence of resource URIs. In addition, all referenced URLs get forwarded to another URL.
The <lastBuildDate> content problem is not important and mainly useless anyway. Keep it or kick it: nobody will care. RFC 822 dates are neither user nor parser-friendly anyway (which the use of a unknown time zone shows), ISO-8859-1.
What RDF users _do_ care about is unique URIs. Maybe this is considered "pointless". I don't think it is.
Greetings Tim
On 26.11.2003, at 20:37, Ben Hines wrote:
No Actually, read it: "lastBuildDate must be an RFC-822 date"
is the error.
I checked RFC-822. CET is not allowed.
-Ben
On Nov 26, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Tim Pritlove wrote:
No this fails because <lastBuildDate> is not part of RSS 1.0 at all as I pointed out before.
feedvalidator.org does a good job in general but is still missing some issues, especially with this feed. All validators suffer from the fact that people too often mix the two different RSS standards in a single feed and therefore try to accept everything which can only fail.
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