Re: Multiple Links with Asterisks?

"randymorin" <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:22:49 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nate,
Believe it or not, that's just one big weird-ass looking singular link, not multiple links. There's nothing in RSS about having multiple links in the link element.
Thanks,

Randy

--- In [email protected], "nrutman" <nathan.rutman@...> wrote:
>
> I'm working on parsing some RSS 2.0 content, and I've found that several popular RSS 2.0 documents have multiple links embedded in one <link> tag separated by asterisks.
> 
> For instance, this is from the Yahoo Finance feed:
> 
> <link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/topnews/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/091009/as_india_earns_infosys.html</link>
> 
> Is this part of the RSS 2.0 spec?  It doesn't look like it to me.  Is this common?  How should I handle this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Nate
>




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