Re: Re: Adapting RSS-0.91/RSS-0.9 to the new hosting at http://www.rssboard.org/

rcade wrote:
> 
> --- In [email protected] <mailto:rss-public%40yahoogroups.com>, 
> Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@...>
> wrote:
>  > Have we not already broken millions of existing feeds that refer to
>  > the RSS 0.91 DTD at the old Netscape URL and rely upon entities
>  > defined in them?
> 
> Netscape decided in January to stop hosting the DTD requests on Aug.
> 1. Although our preference was that old requests be redirected to the
> new URL, they decided to transition people for six months and then
> turn it off entirely.
> 
> In Netscape's defense, it's a massive amount of traffic. They honored
> more than one billion requests for the DTD in the years they were
> hosting it.
> 
> If anyone has suggestions for identifying the feeds that reference the
> old DTD URL, that would be helpful.

This may initially sound overly harsh, but given that the definition of 
XML Validity is based on checks against a DTD, and given that the 
NetScape DTD can no longer be obtained at the prior address, I'm 
inclined to have the feedvalidator flag any such uses as invalid.  I've 
made and deployed that change, but would be willing to downgrade the 
message to a warning.

The first suggestion in the detailed message is to use the advisory 
board's DTD.

In general, I would not recommend that anybody use DTDs, but I've made 
sure that no such warning occurs for the advisory boards DTD.

If the advisory board's DTD is used, the entity definitions defined 
therein are also accepted.

- Sam Ruby



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