2008/7/14 Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 14 Jul 2008, at 08:09, Chris Ridd wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14 Jul 2008, at 07:46, Shawn Walker wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I know, the RSS/Atom format doesn't work like that. See
>>> section 6.3:
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
>>
>> Not even using XML namespaces? I'm sure I've seen feeds containing
>> Dublin Core metadata using that technique. I'll dig out some examples
>> later if you can't find any.
>
> All the feeds I've been looking through use RSS, darn it, but my
> reading of 6.3 of RFC 4287 is that "foreign markup" is explicitly
> permitted and processors are required not to break when they see it.

Yes, but if you read section 6.3 of the rfc, it also says that they
may not change their behaviour if they see it.

So it seems rather useless to me.

I would rather provide a separate feed for the explicit purpose of
parsing instead of adding additional overhead to an RSS Feed that most
readers will completely ignore.

That's functionality that can be added later in the form of
"/feed/0/extended" or some such thing.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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