Re: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

[Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com>]

Jeff Bone writes:
> I agree with Dan that ISO8601 is the preferred format for dates, but
> Mike brings up a good point re: XSLT.  A quick grep of the XSLT 1.0
> spec seems to reveal that it doesn't speak to datetime value
> transformations at all;

If you're sorting you're undoubtedly doing a transformation to some
format other than HTML, I'm not familiar enough with XSLT to know if
it's a good way to get comma delimited text out, but...

A better solution might be an optional attribute that's ISO8601 on
date fields. That way if the element isn't RFC822 or ISO8601 there's
an unambiguous override (For those of you who read a lot of my
ramblings, note my fantasies about web pages and calendar program
interactions...)

Dan