From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T06:33:09+09:00
Subject: Re: bug: rss/maker is requiring <image> for rss/0.9

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:00:13 +0900, you wrote:

>RSS standards are an endless debate I don't want to really be a big
>part of.

when i was in the process of creating rss code for my blogging program
i wasn't surprised to find a few different versions of rss out there,
but i WAS surprised to find a few standards for each and no real
consensus on what to use...

i gave up on trying to use various rss modules so i just wrote brute
force code...that way if there's an error/consensus/bug, i can just
fix it directly...

it seems that most of the updated aggregators are more forgiving of
the various standards, but they never used to be...it's one of the
reasons i was jumping around with readers...
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