RE: [Rsslibj-developer] patch of a sort for rss100.java

[Joseph O. <jo...@en...>]

Ahh, I see. I'll put the change in in a few hours or so.

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Danny Ayers wrote:

>
> > Joe, the only issue with applying this patch is that I'm not sure what
> > it's solving. You're adding the item to the sequence, and the *main*
> > difference I see is that you're using the item LINK instead of the item
> > ABOUT data... and those should be the same reference. Am I missing
> > something?
>
> The resource in the seq should the the same as the 'about', see :
> http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec#s5.3.5
>
> According to the spec : "{item_uri} should be identical to the value of the
> <link> sub-element of the <item> element, if possible.". So
> although in most circumstances the 'about' will be the same as the <link>,
> this isn't necessarily always the case (this was discussed a while ago on
> rss-dev).
>
> (Personally I'd prefer that the specs made the <link> element optional, so
> that self-contained items like many on blog posts were covered better, the
> thing being described being the 'about' resource, without reference to any
> external URL).
>
> Cheers,
> DAnny.
>
>
>

---------------------------------------------------------
Joseph B. Ottinger                 jo...@en...
http://enigmastation.com                    IT Consultant