Re: Last Call on the RSS Profile

These should be added to v1.1 of the profile. We need to get v1 out 
the door ASAP as we've are already late delivering. At this point, we 
should only be considering errors and typos like the Atom namespace 
issue.
Thanks,

Randy


--- In [email protected], "kuhnbr" <kuhnbr@...> wrote:
>
> To improve the ability of feed aggregators/readers to determine 
when a
> channel has been updated, I would add a Recommendations section
> to both lastBuildDate and pubDate for channel to recommend that the
> pubDate and lastBuildDate SHOULD be present.
> 
> It might also be useful to explicitly define in the channel
> item requirements the two scenarios of what a channel item might
> represent, e.g. a 'story item' versus a 'complete item'.
> 
> For story items, my understanding of "An item may represent a
> 'story' -- much like a story in a newspaper or magazine; if so its
> description is a synopsis of the story, and the link points to the
> full story." and "...at least one of title or description must be
> present" is that link and title MUST be present,
> while description is optional (but recommended).
> 
> For complete items, my understanding of "An item may also be
> complete in itself, if so, the description contains the text
> (entity-encoded HTML is allowed; see examples), and the link and 
title
> may be omitted." is that description MUST be present and
> contain the full content for the item while title and
> link are optional.
> 
> I think "xmlns:content="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" is a
> typo, shouldn't it be "xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ?
> 
> Thanks for all of the great work you have out into fleshing out the
> RSS 2.0 specification, the RSS profile should make it easier for 
feed
> aggregators to support a common feature set.
>




 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:[email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/