Re: RSS items order

"Alex Kolesnichenko" <yahoo-KwUv6+pz0nRWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:35:30 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

r> It's common, however, to put the items in a descending sort order; newest
at
r> the top.  This is the de facto way for a publisher to dictate what "sort
order"
r> they intend the items to be viewed using but there's no way to force it
on a
r> viewing program. It is, however, a very good idea to include userful
timestamps.
r> If yahoo's ignoring otherwise valid timestamps then that sounds like a
bug
r> in their implementation.

Looks like. Anyone from Yahoo! to comment this?

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

Here you are:
http://www.bytegems.com/files/xxx.xml

It validates with feedvalidator perfectly. Though the validator isn't
perfect itself. I found several inconsistences of it with RSS 2.0 specs.

-- 
Best regards, Alex Kolesnichenko.
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