Orphan items and childless channels

Crossing over from the feedvalidator.org mailing list [1], any opinions 
on the legality of having <items> include URIs that don't match any 
<item>? Since the spec explicitly says that <item>s which doesn't show 
up in <items> "are likely to be discarded by RDF parsers" that pretty 
clearly should be a warning (but not an error), but is the reverse case 
an error, cause for a warning, or perfectly legal?

Phil Ringnalda

[1] 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8979986&forum_id=37467 
(though the original example gets eaten in Sourceforge's web view)


 
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