Re: Absolute URLs are required in RSS 2 descriptions or not?

It doesn't say you can't in the spec, but neither does it say you can, 
or how to calculate absolutes from relatives. This has resulted in many 
RSS readers which don't work with relative URLs. As such, the 
convention is not to use them.

This is something the profile might address in a future version, if not 
already.

Thanks,

Randy




--- In [email protected], "d" <dterrors@...> wrote:
>
> 
> The online feed validators are claiming that relative urls are not
> allowed in html inside of the description element in RSS 2. And I've
> read many people saying that online.
> 
> Is that a myth?  Where in the spec does it say that?
> 
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
> 
> It talks about it for <link> and <url> elements being absolute but not
> <description>.
>




 
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