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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has some overlapping definitions between its "elements" namespace and its "terms" namespace. Many "terms" are actually specializations of corresponding "elements". For example, the element "issued" in the "terms" namespace is a specialization of "date" from the "elements" namespace, and as you may guess, it represents the "issue date(s)" of the annotated item.... read more

We have just pushed R107 to the Files area. Contains support for OPML 2.0 format.

We are pleased to announce upcoming support for OPML 2.0 format, widely used to distribute lists of feeds for import into aggregators, etc.

We have just uploaded a hefty update to the Javadoc, now at R104.

Also have added Microsoft NS support for Search Suggestion, and extended the SyndEntry to include an image. There will be another JAR upload to follow.

We are pleased to announce support for the Open Search SearchSuggestion 2.0 XML format. This format is also consumed by browsers. Expect to see a commit very soon.

It is close enough to Atom/RSS that we are able to shoehorn it in there. Missing features are the Separator element, and width and height attributes on Image element.

Synchronized release of parse and generate packages.

The Atom handlers for feed and entry elements are ignoring configured namespace modules. This is not an issue for RSS handlers.

The next release will correctly handle Atom Entry Documents, which have an entry element as the document root, instead of a feed element.

Contains fixes for Atom serialization under API 10 and higher (KXML).

Starting in the Gingerbread release (API 10), Android is using the KXML Serializer.
This has some issues with Synder-generate, and we have a fix coming.

Contains fixes.

Contains fixes.

Performance is extremely good on this build of Android!
Synder is now hot enough to use in user-facing scenarios with minimal background processing time. We speculate faster CPUs and much-improved GC performance make this possible.

Don't forget that Synder is fully Java SE/EE compatible. It's not just for Android!
We are currently deploying a Google Wave version of our Feed Farmer RSS/Atom tool, which is Powered By Synder.

Here is a link to a Public Wave you can check out:

https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+wgkREacCA

Starting with r56, Synder-generators.jar contains an org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer implementation.

Stay tuned, we are putting together a set of generators based on org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer.

Revision 35 Javadocs are now available in the Files area.

Starting with R34, we found more places to shave off memory usage.

Starting with R26, Synder uses less memory during parsing, thanks to additional lazy-initialization. Thanks profiler!

Starting with r22, Synder fully supports this parser implementation. Previous revisions had a defect that would occur only on certain documents.

There are packaging issues with the last couple revisions; they have been taken down.

Synder now has support for "foreign markup" at the feed/entry levels.
This feature is off by default; you must explicitly enable it.

Starting with R16, Synder includes iTunes and RDF Content namespace modules.
For RDF Content, only the "encoded" element is initially supported.

The namespace "modules" for these are now implemented. Other namespace modules are forthcoming, e.g. iTunes.

From eScape Technology LLC:
Our Android-based RSS/Atom feed viewer and podcast downloader is now powered by Synder!
If you are using ROME on Android (provided you got it to run), give up now and switch over.