Re: Plus-separated categories

I agree with Randy.  '+' is perfectly legal within the text of a
category element, and shouldn't receive any special interpretation.

--- In [email protected], "Randy Morin" <randy@...> wrote:
>
> 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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