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Tip'o'the hat to the FeedValidator and crew


I'd like to thank the folks who developed and run the FeedValidator, a valuable service that let's you know if your feeds validate against the RSS, Atom and commonly used extension specs. The warnings that it issues may be irritating and some can be safely ignored, but they're valuable just the same. I don't particularly like the warnings about <content:encoded> (which Roller now uses, by the way) and the style attribute, but I understand why they're necessary. If you want to whine about something, whine about the crappy RSS specs that we're all stuck with not the folks that are trying to help you understand them.

Update: In Roller RSS 2.0 feeds, we now use <atom:summary> for entry.summary (which is new) and <description> for entry.text (as we always have).
Dave Johnson in Blogging • 🕒 07:34AM Apr 18, 2006
Tags: atom rss
Comments:

Amen! Sam didn't deserve the crap he got over commentRss this week.

Posted by WillR on April 18, 2006 at 03:34 PM EDT #

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