Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

Aaron Swartz writes:
> I think there's a misunderstanding here -- the namespaces are only
> optional additions -- you can completely ignore them if you don't
> want to parse them, you'll still be left with the important RSS
> stuff. RSS 1.0 is designed to be backwards-compatible with 0.9, if
> you can't parse the new stuff (like namespaces or RDF) just ignore
> it and you'll be fine. Do 1.0 files break your parser? If so, you
> may want to bring that up as an issue to the RSS-DEV list so that
> they know.

No, the difficulty comes in when you _do_ want to use them, not ignore
them.

Using namespaces does add an incremental level of stuff (typing,
verbosity, complexity) even in environments that support them well.
If you're in an environment that doesn't support them well yet, they
can be very difficult.

 -- Ken