Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

* scamden <[email protected]> [2009-02-03 03:00]:
> If you wanted to use the null namespace for some other purpose,
> then you could prefix the RSS elements with a properly declared
> namespace prefix (in an ideal world, and in standard XML
> grammar). But RSS has  traditionally been used without any
> prefixes, and clients expect it that way. I'm not asking for a
> change, I'm just pining for the fjords.

I tried that with Atom, which *is* in a namespace, and even then
most clients broke: http://plasmasturm.org/log/376/

The situation is greatly improved now among the popular
aggregators but I have no doubt that lots of fringe software is
still broken in this respect.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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