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

On 5 Feb 2009, at 05:20, James Holderness wrote:

> rcade wrote:
>> I look forward to seeing the results of your test,
>
> Results now up on my blog:
> http://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/blog/2009/02/a-namespace-for-rss

FWIW, SimplePie used to support the Userland namespace, but dropped  
support for it seeming it was used nowhere and does have a cost. It  
appears (looking with grep…) to have been introduced for 1.0 Beta 2  
and removed for 1.0 RC1 (i.e., the last release with support was 1.0  
Beta 3 Bugfix 2). However, these versions oddly seem to match  
element's expanded names case-insensitively (I'm sure I thought there  
was some good compat. reason for this at the time). Furthermore,  
versions prior to 1.0 Beta 2 (though maybe not 0.8, but I never had  
anything to do with that) will have worked with all but the prefixed  
variations (due to not using a namespace-aware XML parser).

To my knowledge, nothing broke by moving to a namespace-aware parser,  
and nothing broke removing support for the Userland namespace.


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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>



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