Hey Rcade, I think this can only be done on a "hub-by-hub" basis. Some hubs might support normalization (like http://superfeedr.com), some others may not.
Julien -- Julien Genestoux, http://twitter.com/julien51 http://superfeedr.com +1 (415) 830 6574 +33 (0)9 70 44 76 29 Sent from Lyon, France On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, rcade <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the design philosophies that I like about PubSubHubbub is the > decision to put as much of the complexity in the hub as possible, > making it simple for feed publishers and readers to support the > protocol. For this reason, when I created a Java application that > receives updates, I was surprised when some fat pings arrived in RSS > 2.0 format instead of Atom. > > Is there a possibility that fat pings will be normalized to Atom, no > matter what format the originating feed employs? > > If you normalize the pings, PuSH clients only have to support one feed > format. If you don't, clients have to support Atom, RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 > (Netscape), RSS 0.91 (UserLand), RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. > > Although all current feed-reading applications must support all of > those formats, if PuSH normalizes pings, it makes it possible for > future applications to be developed that only have to support Atom. > That would be a nice selling point for developers. >
