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20040616 Wednesday June 16, 2004

RSS Specifications and schemas (well, not really)

This morning, in an internal Sun alias, somebody asked

Are there specifications available for the various RSS formats (not including the atom work at the IETF)? ... Dare I even hope for something like a schema?

YEAH RIGHT, I want that too. My reply to that poor soul was something like this

If you dare calling them specifications here they are: RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0.

I'm still on the quest for DTDs or XML-schemas for all of them but the folks that wrote these *specs* apparently were too busy for such distractions.

And there is even more, you have even different versions with the same version number, isn't that great? Mark Pilgrim did a very good analysis of the different RSS versions.

I'm sure others will find useful having all these links together.

(2004-06-16 15:45:12.0) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

I don't call most of them specifications - they're really burpings of Dave Winer, who was happily convinced to use well-formed XML (but refused to make it a useful set of specs and *require* well-formed XML). RSS 1.0 - RDF - is the only actual spec of all of those, and that's one reason I prefer it. You left out ATOM, too. :)

Posted by Joseph Ottinger on July 08, 2004 at 04:46 AM PDT #

i hate to sound arrogant, but i am totally baffeled that something as relatively simple at the RSS specifications (especially the first ones) do not have a DTD. Why on earth would you go about publicicing an XML format without it? is it just ignorance, or was it made for a language that not yet had a validationg parser, and therefore thought less important? even for the internal XML formats we use at work we have made detailed DTD or schemas (even though we have full control over both publishers and consumers). What gives?

Posted by morten wilken on July 08, 2004 at 06:26 AM PDT #

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