Re: Re: The Profile and the Feed Validator

Not to mention the fact that there is a really big difference between
"need to fix" and "should fix".  The feed still validates, so folks
should feel free to ignore the warnings if they so desire.

- James

rcade wrote:
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected] <mailto:rss-public%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Dave Winer" <dave.winer@...> wrote:
>> Helping with relative urls and multiple enclosures is, imho,
>> constructive. Telling them that their managingEditor and webMaster
>> elements need fixing when they don't and telling them to include the
>> Atom 1.0 namespace (!) is not constructive, just confusing.
> 
> The Feed Validator's check for atom:link is already starting to bear
> fruit. I'm hearing from blogging tool developers about what the
> element is and why it's so useful. I've already helped two developers
> add support for it (and would be eager to help more).
> 
> Even before the profile's adoption, atom:link was the second-most
> popular namespace element in an RSS feed's channel, appearing in 15
> percent of the feeds we surveyed [1]. It makes a feed completely
> self-describing so that it's easier to cache, transfer over
> file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and send in email. Every RSS 2.0
> feed produced by FeedBurner includes one.
> 
> As for email addresses in RSS, we had discussions here about how to
> deal with the fact that the specification offers no guidance on the
> proper form for an address. Because every example email address in the
> spec takes the form "username@tld (First Last)", we stated that it's
> the RECOMMENDED format in RSS 2.0. In my opinion this is the proper
> approach, because you should be able to know that if you follow the
> example to the letter, it will work in aggregators.
> 
> 1: http://www.rssboard.org/news/168 <http://www.rssboard.org/news/168>
> 
> 


 
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