Re: [syndication] sequence of items in RSS

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

Julian, speaking for our RSS stuff only..

1. In Manila, the order of the RSS is determined by the order of items on
your home page.

2. In Radio-generated RSS feeds it's most-recent-first, and they scroll off
the bottom, as you describe in this post.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian@netmarketseurope.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: [syndication] sequence of items in RSS


> What do people generally do about the sequence of items in an RSS file?
> Is it most recent first or last? There's nothing in the standard about
> this, and probably shouldn't be.
>
> And what about those RSS feeds that put all the content in the feed,
> such as the Radio cloud. Is the RSS file expected to be read top down or
> bottom up?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I'm experimenting with aggregating a
> number of feeds into a database and want to read them out last in first
> out. It looks as though generally, people are adding new items at the
> beginning of the file and expiring old ones off the bottom but I'm
> wondering if this is a common convention.
>
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