Re: ScriptingNews: The future of RSS

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Paulo Gaspar <Paulo.Gaspar@krankikom.de> wrote:

> I still fail to see why old RSS formated data, where _NO_ namespaces
> where used, has to use them after convertion without the data being
> extended or merged with anything else.
> 
> I like namespaces WHEN they simplify my life.

This is a good point, Authors, can you answer here? Why aren't the rss091
stuff an optional part of the spec? I'm forwarding this message to the
RSS-DEV list, to ask them. Perhaps it can be changed -- it is a draft after
all!

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