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

We did relative urls in xspf by incorporating xml base.  This is
simple to document and compatible with html, but it is very hard to
implement and I only know of one app that supports it.

In retrospect we should have stuck with absolute urls.


On 6/25/07, d <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Is that a myth?  Where in the spec does it say that?
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> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
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> It talks about it for <link> and <url> elements being absolute but not
> <description>.
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