Re: RSS items order

There's nothing that controls the sort order.  It's common, however, to 
put the items in a descending sort order; newest at the top.  This is 
the de facto way for a publisher to dictate what "sort order" they 
intend the items to be viewed using but there's no way to force it on a 
viewing program. 

It is, however, a very good idea to include userful timestamps.  If 
yahoo's ignoring otherwise valid timestamps then that sounds like a bug 
in their implementation.

What's the feed URL and does it validate reliably?

-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com



Alex Kolesnichenko wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Are there any constraints on the order of RSS <item> elements? In other
>words: should they be ordered by the time published? I'm having problems
>with RSS feeds with no items order: My Yahoo! fails to find latest items if
>the newest item is in the middle of the feed.
>
>  
>



 
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