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Which RSS to use? |
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Steve (22:27 30/7/2005)
Phlamethrower (00:03 31/7/2005)
Steve (12:06 31/7/2005)
Matthew (21:35 31/7/2005)
moss (21:28 3/8/2005)
moss (21:36 3/8/2005)
rich (07:53 4/8/2005)
Matthew (09:01 5/8/2005)
rich (10:59 5/8/2005)
moss (21:32 3/8/2005)
Steve (22:02 3/8/2005)
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Steve C |
Message #68056, posted by Steve at 22:27, 30/7/2005 |
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I'm tweaking the Filebase's RSS feeds, and have got one of them running with RSS 2.0, and it almost validates except for one thing:
Apparently you must have an email address in the 'Author' element, but I don't want to do this, as most authors on the Filebase want to keep their email address hidden.
Anyone know if there's a way around the above, or is there another format (Atom perhaps?) that'll do the job? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #68059, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:03, 31/7/2005, in reply to message #68056 |
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Why not just put a fake address, e.g. "hidden@email". |
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Steve C |
Message #68061, posted by Steve at 12:06, 31/7/2005, in reply to message #68059 |
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Actually, if I was going to do that, then I might as well leave out the 'Author' field, and to be honest, it's probably not essential anyway.
Alternatively, I could just leave it, as it doesn't really cause any problems.
Meh. Standards  |
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Matthew Somerville |
Message #68065, posted by Matthew at 21:35, 31/7/2005, in reply to message #68061 |
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Standards and RSS do not go well together. 
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss
My personal hatred of RSS stems from one simple question - can you put HTML in the article text or not? No version says. |
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John Hoare |
Message #68145, posted by moss at 21:28, 3/8/2005, in reply to message #68065 |
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My personal hatred of RSS stems from one simple question - can you put HTML in the article text or not? No version says.
Presumably if no version says you *can't*, that means that you can? |
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John Hoare |
Message #68146, posted by moss at 21:32, 3/8/2005, in reply to message #68056 |
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Apparently you must have an email address in the 'Author' element, but I don't want to do this, as most authors on the Filebase want to keep their email address hidden. Why not just give them an official one at first.last@filebase.org.uk? That means that their personal ones are safe, but people could still mail them if they want. Or alternatively, set up a load of Gmail ones.
Although I've never seen why people want to hide their real email addresses anyway. Spam filters sort out most of the crap, and I look *forward* to getting mails from people I don't know who have been reading my sites. It's fun |
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John Hoare |
Message #68147, posted by moss at 21:36, 3/8/2005, in reply to message #68145 |
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My personal hatred of RSS stems from one simple question - can you put HTML in the article text or not? No version says.
Presumably if no version says you *can't*, that means that you can?
Ah, reading the article, I see what you're getting at... |
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Steve C |
Message #68148, posted by Steve at 22:02, 3/8/2005, in reply to message #68146 |
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Why not just give them an official one at first.last@filebase.org.uk? That means that their personal ones are safe, but people could still mail them if they want. Or alternatively, set up a load of Gmail ones. I could, but the idea of the 'Author' field is so that people can see who's actually written the software, so having a general email address wouldn't be of much use (aside from meeting the current RSS spec-of-the-day). I'll have a look at Atom over the weekend, as that looks a lot more sensible (if not as widely supported). |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #68149, posted by rich at 07:53, 4/8/2005, in reply to message #68147 |
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My personal hatred of RSS stems from one simple question - can you put HTML in the article text or not? No version says.
Presumably if no version says you *can't*, that means that you can?
Ah, reading the article, I see what you're getting at...
You can put HTML in an RSS feed, so long as it's announced properly.
If you look at our RSS 2.0 feed (which I cribbed from elsewhere  ) it has the plain text description (which I try to truncate to keep below 250 characters so BASIC RSS feeders can still work), and then there's the content tags. So long as you say that the content is encoded and have the CDATA bits in, you can have HTML inside.
If the specs don't help - look what other people are doing. That's how I learned to program in the first place 
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Matthew Somerville |
Message #68174, posted by Matthew at 09:01, 5/8/2005, in reply to message #68149 |
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You can put HTML in an RSS feed, so long as it's announced properly. You're quite correct, Mark's article is out of date, and they released *another* version of RSS2.0 in July 2003 without changing the version number (were they trying to cover up their mistakes?)
If the specs don't help - look what other people are doing. That's how I learned to program in the first place Same here, except I don't want to do it wrong just because everyone else is (if they are). |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #68180, posted by rich at 10:59, 5/8/2005, in reply to message #68174 |
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If the specs don't help - look what other people are doing. That's how I learned to program in the first place Same here, except I don't want to do it wrong just because everyone else is (if they are).
If *everyone* is doing it, it's not wrong, it's redefining the standard
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