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RSS Version 3 Specs Up for Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we'll-be-supporting-atom-in-a-few-weeks dept.

Jonathan Avidan writes "The RSS 3 Homepage now offers its first publicly available specification, the RSS 3 Lite-type Specification First Draft, intended for review and commenting for revision. RSS 3 is a reworking of RSS 2.0, filling the gaps and removing unnecessary features and is fully backwards-compatible, rather than a new format."

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  1. Unnecessary features by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does one remove features and still remain backwards compatible?

    1. Re:Unnecessary features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You remove features for which support was optional. Old implementations should discover that you're not using the options, new implementations no longer even check for them.

  2. Re:Gzip RSS by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why isn't gzip compression of RSS feeds part of the specification?

    It is. It's part of the HTTP specification, RFC 2616. Every data format transmitted over HTTP can take advantage of it. There's no need to treat RSS as a special case.

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  3. Re:rss3? by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In fact, fuck XML altogether. The Internet got along just fine using custom text/binary based formats for three decades.

    Er, you do realise that XML is merely a simplified subset of SGML, on which HTML is based? Hard to agree that the Internet "got along just fine", when its killer app is based on something that is very similar to XML, only far more complicated

    But the tag-based syntax is optimised for specifying a tree-structured document and the attributes of text it contains.

    Sounds like RSS to me.

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