Re: [syndication] skipHours fully implemented in Radio

["Phil Ringnalda" <phil@philringnalda.com>]

Bill Kearney wrote:
> Almost nothing makes use of the rss091 namespace.  I did a query and 10
feeds
> came back.  Unsurprisingly they're using it wrong.
>
> 19692, 6156, 2450, 2462, 13361, 19610, 2450, 2462, 12935, 13361.

13361, yeah, my bad: I forgot the rdf:parseType="Literal" in my plugin.
Fixed now. 19610 isn't using it, just mentioned it in an entry.

It's surprising there aren't more using it wrong, given that the spec gives
the namespace as xmns="" rather than xmlns="". Maybe someone could fix that?

> Would it be better to have the syndication module 'updated' to support
more
> versatile scheduling issues?  The stuff in RSS-0.9 was half-baked, at
best,
> and the syn module half-bakes it differently.
>
> Or, from a different angle, how about using the pseudo-2.0 namespace for
just
> the skiphours stuff?  That'd work.  The 091 module and it's examples are
so
> old, crufty and just plain wrong as to make it not worth resurrecting it.

Is this where I finally get to be the one who says "don't reinvent the
wheel"?

For sites which actually update on a regular schedule, mod_syndication works
just fine. For sites which are only updated during certain hours, but may be
updated at any time during those hours, skipHours and rss091:skipHours work
just fine.

As to mod_rss091's state of disrepair, I know this is the wrong list for
this, but is there any possibility that the rss-dev group could actually
figure out some way of dealing with modules other than the current
"everything is proposed for all time, whether it's just the way we like it
or something that everyone hates and will never use"? Those of us on the
outside looking in have a hard time telling the difference.

Phil Ringnalda