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

On 4 Feb 2009, at 04:57, rcade wrote:

> 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."

To give my opinion as an implementer: do we really need another feed  
format? Effectively, aggregators have support RSS 0.90, RSS 2.0, Atom  
0.3, and Atom 1.0 — do we really have to add RSS-2.0-in-a-namespace to  
that list?

Although we wouldn't have to support it as a feed format per-se, what  
we would have to do would amount to supporting it for everything  
except as a root element (for the sake of supporting, e.g., {http://www.rssboard.org/rss-namespace/ 
}title within an Atom document). I'm also dubious about that "MUST  
NOT" — history has taught us content creators often ignore specs, and  
I would not be surprised if we had to add support for it as a document  
format (though with support for it within Atom that'd mainly be an  
already sunk cost).

Furthermore, I'm doubtful of the real need for RSS-in-a-namespace:  
what does RSS-in-a-namespace give us that Atom can't already do?  
Unless a good answer can be found to that question, I'm against  
creating (what amounts to) another XML format.


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



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