[SPT/CWIS] could SPT support rss 2.0 ?

[Edward Almasy]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Juan Zuluaga wrote:
> would you consider supporting the export of rss 2.0?
> it allows a straightforward inclusion of Dublin Core
> fields, something that is missing in 0.92 . Are there
> reasons to prefer 0.92?

    Since RSS 2.0 is backwards-compatible with
    (and almost identical to) 0.92, I'm assuming
    what you're talking about is the footnote to
    the RSS 2.0 spec that offers the option to
    extend RSS 2.0 by declaring additional
    implementation-defined elements with their
    own accompanying namespaces.  Though that
    would certainly allow the inclusion of Dublin
    Core fields (and almost anything else), we
    probably won't support it because it breaks
    compatibility with the still-widely-used 0.92
    and because an RSS feed with implementation-
    defined fields would only be of interest to
    clients or other software that had been
    designed and/or configured to use those fields.

    If you wanted to add it in yourself, it would
    require extending Axis--RSS.php to support
    additional namespaces and fields defined at
    the application level, and either hard-coding
    the configuration of those namespaces and fields
    or providing a user interface toward that end.

    (If you're not talking about the implementation-
    defined fields, then additional clarification
    would be appreciated. :-))

    Ed


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