Re: Plus-separated categories

"Randy Morin" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:34:47 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It would be incorrect to interpret this as two categories. It's 
actually one category called "Music + Dreams". Two categories should be 
two category elements. I'm not aware of any major publishers that are 
making this mistake. James might know better.
MHO,

Randy
http://www.therssweblog.com

--- In [email protected], "Victor Porton" <porton@...> wrote:
>
> Somewhere I've viewed an RSS (if I remember correctly RSS 2.0) file
> with single <category> tag but two categories separated with '+' sign.
> Something like this:
> 
> <category>Music + Dreams</category>
> 
> Should my RSS aggregator which I currently write consider this as two
> categories? What is this plus-separated format: standard, common
> practice, or just a little mis-behavior of marginal users? Is it
> necessary to take it into account?
>



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