Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

Dave Winer's original suggestion of a portable RSS format is now
available here:

http://www.rssboard.org/news/186

The original is gone from Harvard's blog server.

Reading that post and Randy's PSS 0.9 draft, I agree that we need a
way to use RSS elements in other XML dialects. But I'm not convinced
that the simplest way to do this would be to create a new format.

I think we should consider adding a sentence to the end of the
Extending RSS section [1]:

"Using RSS elements in other XML dialects requires the namespace
declaration "http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace/". This declaration
MUST NOT be used in an RSS document."

The preceding paragraph currently states that RSS elements "are not
themselves members of a namespace" for backwards compatibility.


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