RE: rdf vs. rss

Jeff Marshall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.archives.mail-archive
Message-ID <[email protected]>
More details for those that asked:

rdf and xml (I should've said xml, not rss) are both variations on RSS formats.  Each mailing list at The Mail Archive has both feed formats  available.  For example, the gossip feeds are:

rdf:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.rdf

xml:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml

The rdf file is the 0.9 standard for rss feeds, while the xml file is the 2.0 standard for rss feeds.

If you don't use an rss reader or take advantage of the rss bookmarks in browsers like Firefox, then neither of these matter to you.

Our thought is that all modern rss readers support both formats, so we don't see the point in offering both.  Just looking for feedback from any others that use the rss feeds.

Thanks.

Jeff

More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

-----Original Message-----
From:  Jeff Marshall
Date:  7/18/06 10:37 am
To:  [email protected]
Subj:  [Gossip] rdf vs. rss

We currently serve up two flavors of rss on The Mail Archive.  Does anybody have a strong preference on which one they use?  Does it matter to you?  Are they virtually interchangeable?

We're considering dropping one.

Thanks.

Jeff

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