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

--- In [email protected], "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@...> wrote:
>
> * d <dterrors@...> [2007-06-29 01:25]:
> > 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>.
> 
> It doesn’t say links have to be absolute, but it doesn’t explain
> how to resolve relative URIs either. Therefore aggregators have
> no canonical basis on which to decide, and so they do different
> things. Hence if you use relative URIs, regardless of what they
> are relative to, they will fail to resolve for some portion of
> your readership.
> 
> Conclusion: don’t use relative URIs.
> 
> Corollary: the validator is right to call this out.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>


But the validator is wrong to claim that the spec forbids it.





 
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