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stressed for motivation and achievement2002-09-20
Tearing my hair out
Thanks to Phil for alerting me to the release of RSS v2.0 on Dave Winer’s site. However, this has just reminded me of why I gave up on my attempt to fumble through RSS in the first place.
For the benefit of a novice like myself, can someone explain how one man is able to ‘release’ his own XML format and call it a standard in the same breath as saying that the W3C currently has a separate recommendation for RSS v1.0? I just don’t get it. Surely the W3C rules and that’s that? And if they do have a spec for RSS v1.0, why doesn’t Mr Winer provide any samples for it? And where’s the stuff on the v0.94 format he mentions and who defines that?
I really want to use RSS, but everyone seems to have their own version (Dave Winer, W3C, Netscape, etc.) - what gives? I’m utterly confused. Normally, stuff like this is easy to pick up, but documentation on RSS always leaves me with many, many more questions than answers. :(
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