From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T23:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: (Yet Another?) RSS::Parser test suite

Kou:
>> These days a number of RSS 2.0 feeds offer Dublin Core elements.
>> Even if there could be an arguable degree of funkiness within
>> those practices, that's a fact you definetely have to cope with.
> Do you want RSS Parser to support Dublin Core in every RSS
> 2.0 element? Or some elements?

This is one of the problems that I had while examining proper RSS
2.0 support in the RSS (parsing and generating) library that I was
working on before yours was imported into the Ruby CVS. I didn't
come up with an acceptable way to make it work for either parsing or
generating, but essentially, the spec allows for *any* element or
attribute in the RSS feed so long as it is marked with a namespace.

So, yes. The RSS parser must support Dublin Core -- and anything
else -- with a namespace.

-austin
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