Re: RSS 2.0 textInput element

Clinton Gallagher wrote:
> However, what I want to know is how Dave Winer who created RSS 2.0 and
> presumably wrote the specification claims this sub-element is a mystery 
> when
> it was Dave Winer who created the element?

He didn't create the element. AFAIK Netscape created the element for RSS 
0.91. Userland adopted the element (although renamed from "textinput" to 
"textInput") when it created its own slightly different version of RSS 0.91.

> Has anybody *ever* implemented textInput? I can think of a couple of ways 
> it
> can be very useful but how to implement it? ANYBODY?

BottomFeed, FeedMagick, Shrook.

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> Once a parser found the textInput element in the source would it be 
> expected
> to generate an HTML form element replete with input of type="text" and so
> on?

You may find the documentation in the RSS 1.0 specs more helpful. 
http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec#s5.6
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> I have something to say about the cloud element in this context as well 
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> XML Web Service call it seems) but for now if you would, let's focus on 
> the
> textInput element. What's the story here? Or should I go away?
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