I'm cross-posting this message since I think it highlights one of the
gottcha's that could/will pop up to bite companies when they rely on
external schemas for XML document validation. It obviously emphasizes the
need for one to thoroughly architect for redundancy and backup.
Rachel
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From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:37 PM
To: Dave Winer
Cc: XML-Dev (E-mail); [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Subject: Re: Netscape and RSS
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dave Winer wrote:
> Good morning sports fans!
>
> Worthy of note -- RSS, the embattled spec of the XML world, has suffered
yet another blow..
>
> Yesterday everything RSS-related disappeared from Netscape.Com. Apparently
they did a total redesign of the server, and lost the spec, the DTD, all the
channels and CGIs, even the directory entries on DMOZ are broken this
morning.
>
> It's been an interesting scramble to put it back together. Some RSS
developers are completely broken because their parsers depend on the DTD. We
learned the importance, this morning, of having a good second source for
these things.
>
> We found the DTD [1], and luckily we did our own RSS 0.91 spec [2] last
summer, allowing IETF-style excerpting and replication.
>
> Whew!
Well not quite "Whew" yet. It still needs all feeds to update themselves
to point to the new DTD. But thanks for staying on top of the problem.
Matt. (who lost almost 2 whole days work trying to track this down, and is
thinking of sending the bill to Netscape).
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