Re: [syndication] some republished feeds

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Our RSS compiler requires the required stuff.

It complained about a missing <description>.

It doesn't care about elements it doesn't look for.

These will be very popular channels I think.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Winstead" <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] some republished feeds


> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:44:38PM -0800, Dave Winer wrote:
> > Jim, this is excellent. I really want The Standard and Inside.Com.
Please
> > repost when they're ready, I tried loading them into Radio but it
doesn't
> > like them. :-(
>
> they're "ready" now. there were some illegal characters in one of
> the stories from the standard (which i fixed, and my scraper is
> fixing automatically now).
>
> without a more complete description of what radio doesn't like
> about the feeds, i don't know how to make them any more ready.
>
> i have left out the "required" <description> and <image> elements
> of the <channel>, so if radio insists on seeing those, it won't
> be happy. and if it has problem with extra elements, it won't
> like the <datetime> elements in the <item>s.
>
> jim
>
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