Re: Interpreting the Profile

--- In [email protected], Sam Ruby <rubys@...> wrote:
>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?

The reference to "the RSS specification" in the rss section ...

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-rss

... refers to the RSS 2.0 spec described in the introduction:

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-rss

We never discussed making the requirements in the profile apply to
versions of RSS prior to 2.0.
 
>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?

Logically, a slash-delimited record with only one field could have a
trailing slash or omit it. This recommendation is a pick up directly
from the spec. It means that categories in a hierarchy should use
slashes to separate levels of the taxonomy.
 
>Again, is this something that the board can come to consensus
>on?  Are there any known problems with other values?

We've already reached consensus on it -- if you rely on the spec
published by the board, use http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification.
I am not aware of any problems with using another docs value or
omitting it entirely. I don't see how the validator could determine
which copy of the spec was relied upon, so a warning seems impossible.
 
>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 ?

No to all questions. We were conservative in our inclusion of
namespace elements, adding the ones with significant interop issues
with core elements.



 
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