Re: Interpreting the Profile

Sam Ruby wrote:
>> "c/c" - a common abbreviation for "credit card". I could quite easily
>> imagine someone using that as a category in a financial feed of some 
>> sort.
>> While there's no way to validate it, that's technically not a valid
>> category, since it's not identifying an hierarchical location.
>
> if category == 'c/c': warn(...)
>
> The feed validator generally won't implement a check because somebody
> "could quite easily imagine" something,

I don't think the feed validator should be trying to warn about such things. 
I was just trying to give you an example of what an invalid category might 
look like since you didn't seem to get what the profile recommendation 
meant.

FWIW I have a category database with hundreds of slash separated items. Some 
are clearly hierarchical, many are hard to say either way, but some are 
definitely *not* hierarchical. Some examples: "I/O", "C/C++", "H/P", 
"8/11/2006". Unfortunately I can't tell the source - they could be from 
atom:category elements, dc:subject, or some other category-like extension 
(so not really much better than my hypothetical "c/c" example).

Either way I don't think this is an issue worth worrying about.

Regards
James



 
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