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

On 6 Feb 2009, at 01:46, James Holderness wrote:

> Geoffrey Sneddon:
>> nothing broke removing support for the Userland namespace.
>
> I know that feeds using the Userland namespace did exist in the  
> past, and I
> know of at least one that still exists[1]. Unfortunately there's no  
> easy way
> to determine how widespread the usage is today (for me at least).
>
> It used to be possible to find such feeds with a simple Google  
> search, but
> they removed that functionality a while back. I've often been  
> tempted to
> develop my own web crawler specifically for gathering this kind  
> information,
> but then I remember how lazy I am and go back to taking a nap.

This sorta helps: <http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22http%3A%2F%2Fbackend.userland.com%2Frss2%22&sbtn=Search 
 >.

That said, it mainly contains feed parsers, so it would appear a fair  
number of feed parsers already support it, even if next to nothing  
uses it.


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



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