Thanks Bill,
One other question: can a feed be multilingual and if so, what language tag should be used? Take a look at 235370, i know there's no language tag so it's not valid but what to do if there was a language tag? Wout --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Bill Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) is a translated feed (only differs in language) considered a > > duplicate feed? > > No, it's a feed of it's own. Now, it WOULD be helpful to have a way to > 'link' them. We've something in the works for this but it'll be a while in > coming. > > > 2) what to do if a feed has some recognizable words but > > contains a lot of non-sense characters (for instance: 235382) > > That feed is broken right off the starting line. It's lacking a language > tag and the content isn't english. It does appear to be the right > characters though. If you don't see chinese characters then you might need > to upgrade your browser. I've been using Firefox quite a bit lately and > it's been really nice. > > I'll give whoever made that feed credit, mixing chinese and latin characters > for a creme brulee title isn't trivial. Shame they missed on the language > tag. > > Generally if you don't read the language used in a feed you're free to pass > on reviewing the feed. No sense in being the person marked in the database > as the one that approved some heinously inappropriate feed just because you > couldn't read the text! > > It's also important to point out that approval here is strictly on a > techincal level. Is it a valid feed that has all the right data present. > Not that it's something you agree or disagree with. We suggest reviewers > pass on handling that sort of stuff and let someone else review it, I do it > all the time. > > > 3) can a feed be syndicated if the validator says the feed is valid > > but gives 1 or more warnings (like: Feeds should not be served with > > the "text/html; charset=ISO- 8859- 1" media type)? > > This is an interesting question. Technically text/plain is NOT suitable for > sending out anything other than ASCII plain text. A great many tools ignore > this and use the feed's embedded encoding type. Still, it is technically > incorrect to publish a feed without using the right content type. But if > the feed is otherwise good then you can let it slide. We're not here to be > nitpicking over these somewhat esoteric techincal points. If we get all the > encoding and language stuff worked out THEN we can go back and start beating > people up on the trivial stuff. > > > 4) is 'rejected' a status that only applies to the content of the > > feed and 'awaiting repair' to non-valid XML? > > We only reject feeds that are completely bogus. Filled with "this is a > test" sort of data and the like. If it's badly done XML then mark it for > repair. > > Hope that helps! > > -Bill Kearney > Syndic8.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
