RE: [syndication] HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape "improved" my.netscape.com

["Leigh Dodds" <ldodds@ingenta.com>]

This is why Public Identifiers are so useful. Use of a catalog would
have meant that everyone could have had a local copy, and would
have limited the effects of a single global copy moving.

Really surprised that no one is using 'em.

L.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: 27 April 2001 17:38
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape
> "improved" my.netscape.com
>
>
> I've put out a call on Scripting News, if anyone can find a copy of the
> Netscape DTD in a cache or whatever, please let us know, we'll host it on
> UserLand, and recommend that others do so too. That we got into
> this kind of
> jam is pretty amazing. What else don't we have backup copies of? Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dion Loy" <dion@loy-fu.com>
> To: "JohnMunsch@zwave.com" <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [syndication] HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape
> "improved" my.netscape.com
>
>
> > In related news, according to www.dpreview.com, all the "Add
> this site to
> > My.Netscape.com" buttons no longer work as well.
> >
> > Friday, April 27, 2001, 9:06:46 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > Jzc> I don't know about anybody else but my tool to parse RSS files and
> > Jzc> display their contents ceased working completely yesterday when
> > Jzc> Netscape rolled out their "new and improved" version of
> > Jzc> my.netscape.com.
> >
> > Jzc> As part of their rollout they seem to have removed the file:
> > Jzc> http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd
> >
> > Jzc> A file which unfortunately they had told _everybody_ to put in the
> > Jzc> DOCTYPE of their RSS file. So now my application always
> dies when it
> > Jzc> is parsing the RSS files with this:
> >
> > Jzc> Parsing error, line 2, uri http://www.gamedev.net/xml
> > Jzc>    External entity not
> > Jzc> found: "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd";.
> >
> > Jzc> I'm desparate for a fix so if anybody knows how I could
> tell JAXP to
> > Jzc> ignore the DOCTYPE line or has a couple of lines of code that would
> > Jzc> do the trick I would really appreciate it. But beyond that, what is
> > Jzc> everybody supposed to do now to change their RSS files so
> they again
> > Jzc> point to a DTD? And how many files will get updated and
> how many will
> > Jzc> go on and on with a pointer to a file that apparently no longer
> > Jzc> exists?
> >
> > Jzc> John Munsch
> > Jzc> www.johnmunsch.com
> >
> >
> > Jzc> "Hey, after all, we're Netscape, if we're not going to use RSS
> > Jzc> anymore then nobody else will either right?"
> >
> > Jzc> "Heh heh. You are so right man, we are really the only ones who
> > Jzc> matter."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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