Re: Persistence of items

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

--- In syndication@y..., Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@t...> 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.

I'll have you know that I went over to the rss-dev mailing list and 
read up on the spec before writing my original response.  It wasn't 
completely clear that this was geared toward genuine uniqueness.  I 
erred on the side of caution.

This still doesn't help Julian as many feeds aren't supporting the 
newer spec.  This is unfortunate.  Funny how politics and attitudes 
get in the way of these things...

-Bill Kearney