Dave Winer noted some
23 new
feeds from ABC news. What is particularly interesting
about these feeds is that they are marked as RSS 0.93, complete
with a DTD copyright Walt Disney Internet Group. The DOCTYPE
also indicates this ownership. The version number is repeated
in the URL itself.
The channel on these feeds don't have a description (despite
being required by the DTD). Pubdates seem to be in a
compressed form of the
ISO 8601
format. Links are expressed as CDATA (which is OK), but
some of the links have an extraneous double quote character at the
end of the URL (which is not).
RE: Disney's RSS 0.93
Give 'em a break already. It's not their fault that keyboards aren't designed for four-fingered, glove-wearing programmers.
Sam,
Apologies to use this post as a point of contact but couldn't find another way. The link to your Feeds page is somewhat broken as IE is trying download the URL.
Serdar: I could quibble over whether my feeds page is broken or if it is, in fact, IE that is broken. ;-)
In any case, my feeds page is now serving perfectly valid XHTML 1.1 with a mime type of text/html to browsers which don't indicate that they will accept xhtml.
Is RSS 0.93 really simple? I guess not. Winer introduced us to these 23 new bad feeds. As Sam points out, it doesn't validate. The pubDate is extra funky, dc:date format. The link is CDATA encoded and contains extra characters. Missing...