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

--- In [email protected], "d" <dterrors@...> wrote:
> It talks about it for <link> and <url> elements being absolute but not
> <description>.

The spec doesn't forbid (or allow) relative URLs in an item's
description. The spec also doesn't identify the base URL to use when
resolving a relative URL, so relative URLs are therefore unusable.

For this reason, the current draft of the RSS Profile [1] has this
recommendation:

"The description should not contain relative URLs, because the RSS
format does not provide a means to identify the base URL of a
document. When a relative URL is present, an aggregator may attempt to
resolve it to a full URL using the channel's link as the base."

1: http://rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-item-description



 
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