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

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

I turned off validation on Meerkat's collector some time ago for a couple of
reasons:

  a) The DTD's reachability on my.netscape.com was rather, to put it mildly,
staccato.

  b) Ad-hoc extensions to RSS 0.91 (eg. <author>, <date>) combined with the
static DTD
     model disallowed access to content that was otherwise rather
interesting.

Rael

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
: Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:30 AM
: To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
: Subject: [syndication] Re: HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape
: "impr oved" my.netscape.com
:
:
: Right on. My.UserLand and Radio UserLand didn't skip a beat either.
: Dave
:
: --- In syndication@y..., "Morbus Iff" <morbus@d...> wrote:
: > > Everybody's parsers are out of luck, including even simple try to
: DISPLAY
: > > any RSS feed in Internet Explorer (capable of handling XML).
: > >
: > > > As part of their rollout they seem to have removed the file:
: > > > http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd
: >
: > Well, validating parsers at the very least - there are some readers
: (like my
: > AmphetaDesk at disobey.com/amphetadesk/), that do not check the DTD
: for
: > validity...
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