Re: [FeedValidator] Re: Fragment Identifiers

The point about prohibiting relative URLs is that the source URL might not
be 'available' to the program processing the RSS.  Either then and there
during the download or (more likely) well after the fact.

Were this RSS-1.0 there'd be some merit to using fragments as rdf:ID and
rdf:nodeID attributes.  But in all the non-RDF flavors of RSS it's not
supported.

Perhaps a follow up question is in order, what is it you're trying to
accomplish?  Are you trying to make HREF links from one RSS item to another?
Or are you trying to apply some sort of semantic identifiers on blocks of
text?

One thing that's always bugged me about RSS feeds (regardless of flavor) is
the inability to refer to a specific item from a given 'instance' of a feed
document.  As in, item 6 of the feed published on 3/14/2005.  There's just
no way to do it.

This is not a bad thing, per se, as the feed itself is really only supposed
to be a set of descriptive pointers to the main content.  The content's not
/supposed/ to be in the feed (although many folks seem bent on doing just
that).  I suppose something like a p2p link could be assembled based on a
hash of the feed instance and the item ID.  In RSS-1.0 this would be simple
enough as each feed item is required to have a feed-unique rdf:about
attribute.   Granted, this is again rather pointless as the feed itself
isn't the content; the website is the content.  So the inability to make
relative references to an item from a given instance of a feed really isn't
all that important.  It's one of those 'gee it would be neat ideas' that
doesn't hold up to practicality.

-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kearney" <[email protected]>
> It's still a relative reference and thus not valid in an RSS feed.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jacques Distler" <[email protected]>
>
> > refers to id="foo" of the *current* document. No relative (or absolute)
> > URL resolution is involved.
> >
> > So what's "invalid" about it?



 
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