From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T06:44:39+09:00
Subject: Re: bug: rss/maker is requiring <image> for rss/0.9

Quoteing snowzone5@hotmail.com, on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:33:09AM +0900:
> 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...

Its quite strange to see, isn't it? I wonder if it's purely caused by
ego investment in RSS, or whether its maybe driven by commercial
interests wanting to be the ones to have authored THE spec.

Its particularly strange given how simple RSS is, at least 0.91. There
only seems to be a dozen tags commonly used, its about as simple as you
can be and stil be an xml packet.

> 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...

I've a friend who wrote an RSS reader, he said pretty much the same
thing. He eventually threw away any thought of using xml, and ripped
what he needed out with regular expressions. Ouch.

Cheers,
Sam