Re: Re: RSS : a "namespace" in itself ?

rcade wrote:
> 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."

My concern is that, no matter what you say in the spec, you can be sure that 
people will start using that namespace in regular feeds. And when they do, I 
suspect many feed readers are going to break.

I think we can possibly lessen that breakage by choosing a namespace URI 
that is already in use in the wild, so there's some chance that feed readers 
will already support it. The one that I've seen most often is: 
http://backend.userland.com/rss2

Before this amendment is proposed to the board, I would like to run a few 
tests to see how big an issue this is and if the choice of namespace URI 
makes any real difference.

Regards
James


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