Interpreting the Profile

Randy kindly provides some answers to some of the questions I raised:

     http://www.therssweblog.com/?guid=20071111122717

I'm copying the questions and answers here, as I'm mostly interested in 
finding out if these answers are something the board can come to a 
consensus on.

Here goes:

     * 4.1 - Should warnings be issued when version="0.91" or
             version="0.92" is encountered?

       "Yes, in fact, it should issue a warning whenever the version
       is not 2.0, this includes any remaining 0.93 and 0.94s."

       Follow up: is this something the board can come to consensus
       on?  In particular, are there any known problems with 0.91?
       0.92?  0.93?  0.94?

     * 4.1.1.4 - If read one way, this statement implies that all
                 category values should have a slash in it. If read
                 any other way, this statement is meaningless.

       "I don't understand the confusion."

       Follow up: in Randy's feed, I see an item with a category of
       "rss".  Is this a slash delimited value?  Put another way,
       can anybody come up with an example of a category which
       is *NOT* a slash delimited value?  If not, what does this
       recommendation mean?

     * 4.1.1.7 - Should the feed validator recommend this?

       "Sure, why not?"

       Again, is this something that the board can come to consensus
       on?  Are there any known problems with other values?

     * 4.1.1.20.2 - Same issue as in section 4.1.1.4

       "Same response."

       Fair enough.

     * 5.1.1 - To help seed this discussion, is it the intent of this
               requirement to make the following suggested replacements?

       "Both dc:publisher, dc:source can be used for unique purpose and
       can be funky. Warnings here may or may not be helpful."

       Hmmm.  Not it is my turn to not understand.  Let's make it simple:

       Should a warning be issued for admin:generatorAgent ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:date ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:language ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:publisher ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:rights ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:source ?
       Should a warning be issued for dc:subject ?
       Should a warning be issued for dcterms:modified ?

- Sam Ruby


 
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