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mismatched RSS info (Score:2, Informative)

by kellan (905)

I downloaded a copy of the perl.datetime RSS feed, and for my next few comments I'm assuming that its representative of most of the feeds.

The first thing I noticed is that the feeds are served as application/rdf+xml, but Mozilla asked me to download them, rather then display them as XML.

The next thing I noticed is that these are very unusual looking RSS feeds.

They look like they are essentially old style RSS 0.9 feeds (declare the RDF namespace, and My Netcenter namespaces, no modules, limited tagset) bu
- Re:mismatched RSS info (Score:2)
  
  by pudge (1)
  
  It looks odd to me, too. However, the RSS Validator [archive.org] says it is OK. It looks most like the mythical "RSS 2.0" to me, with the guid, but I couldn't tell you.
  - Re:mismatched RSS info (Score:1)
    
    by snowball (2106) <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> on 2003.05.30 17:10 (#20654) Homepage
    
    Hmmm, it does look like a really mixed up feed to me... RSS 0.9 namespace, loads of Dave Winer style elements.... since it's a Perl site why are they not using XML::RSS [cpan.org]!?
    
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