Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

I've always found this mildly problematic.  Ideally, you should be 
able to define a namespace for RSS and prefix the elements, but I 
imagine that would break 99% of RSS clients, who aren't expecting RSS 
elements to be prefixed at all.

--- In [email protected], Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@...> 
wrote:
>
> * secou <secou@...> [2009-02-02 16:30]:
> > RSS is an XML dialect.
> 
> “RSS is an XML vocabulary.”
> 
> > It can handle external namespaces declared by "xmlns"
> > attributes.
> 
> “It can incorporate other vocabularies if they have a namespace.
> Namespaces must be declared with `xmlns` attributes.”
> 
> > But, hum, do you consider RSS as "namespace" in itself? Or is
> > it incorrect to use this word.
> 
> No. Yes.
> 
> > In fact, I try to explain "namespace", in an RSS/Atom and
> > modules/extensions view, describing it as a group of elements
> > all possibly used in a specific goal, and needing to be
> > declared to avoid polysemic confusion.
> >
> > But how would you explain that RSS is a namespace... but that
> > you don't have to declare it the usual way...  (with "xmlns") ?
> > Is the "<rss version=2.0>... </rss>" section enough to say that
> > the RSS namespace is the basic namespace I the newsfeed ?
> 
> See above.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>




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