Re: Persistence of items

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com> wrote:

>> In RSS 1.0, the value of the rdf:about attribute is not supposed to change,
>> even if the value of <link> (the actual link) does. In fact, the rdf:about
>> doesn't even have to point to a real page, just as long as it does not
>> change. So to all those of you with RSS 1.0 feeds out there: Don't change
>> rdf:about!
> 
> good thing the spec and its examples make this clear.
> 
> people would probably find it confusing if the spec merely mentioned
> that the rdf:about attribute should be identical in value to the
> <link> sub-element, if possible.

Yeah, I know. I'm going to write this up in my quick start guide, but I'm
too tired to push for this in the spec right now... maybe later.

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