Re: Re: Plus-separated categories

Yeah, I don't recall ever seeing a plus sign used as a separator, although I 
have seen it used as a replacement for space (e.g. "lord+of+the+rings"). 
Categories tend to come in all sorts of weird formats, though, so nothing 
would surprise me.

Regards
James

Randy Morin 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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