using namespaces on feed lists

Hi all,

What impact will using legitimate XML namespaces have on how your RSS readers
consume OPML files?

We're interested in including some other, syndicated-related, data in the
exports from Syndic8.  We'd like to have some idea as to whether that will
negatively impact anyone's RSS reader program that handles imports.

To that end I've made some test feed lists you can try.

The HTML page:
http://www.syndic8.com/userinfo.php?UserID=wkearney99&Section=list_8

In regular OPML form:
http://www.syndic8.com/genfeed.php?Format=opml&UserID=wkearney99&List=8

In a test 'namespaced' form:
http://www.syndic8.com/genfeed.php?Format=opmlns&UserID=wkearney99&List=8

There isn't a valid namespace URL for the opml spec, not that I could find
anyway.

So what's going on here are a few extra attributes have been grafted into the
outline element for a feed.  I despise doing things this way, but such are the
confines of the format.

Anyway, spin that URL through your "program that can read opml" and tell me if
it's a problem.

-Bill Kearney


 

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