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Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec

Author:		Geoff Allen
Posted:		6/8/2000; 7:58:25 AM
Topic:		RSS 0.91
Msg #:		19 (in response to 15)
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Actually, I have seen embedded links in RSS 0.91, simply by putting the HTML in the field. I don't know if it's legal or not, but it seems to work just fine. (I use a home-grown aggregator using the Perl XML::RSS module, which seems to be pretty strict about what it will accept, and embedded links get through it just fine.)

One advantage <scriptingNews> has over RSS 0.91 is the idea of items that have NO link. For example, the RSS version of Scripting News is pretty useless, because Dave writes a lot of paragraphs that are narrative, rather than being "news" items with a link. Also, the first link in a paragraph becomes the <title>/<link> pair, and that might not be the MAIN link in the paragraph.

The advantage of RSS over <scriptingNews> is that I have an off-the-shelf parser for RSS. I haven't yet found a Perl-based parser for <scriptingNews>. Yeah, I could write one. I just haven't had/made the time.....

There are responses to this message:

Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Jonathan Eisenzopf, 7/8/00; 8:02:34 AM
Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Zac, 6/10/00; 10:08:18 AM

Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Dave Winer, 6/10/00; 10:12:21 AM

Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Zac, 6/10/00; 10:22:31 AM

Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Lantz Rowland, 6/12/00; 12:15:30 PM

Re: Comments on RSS 0.91 spec, Jason Levine, 6/8/00; 10:41:11 AM

Last update: Thursday, June 8, 2000 at 7:58:25 AM Pacific.