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iTunes Podcasting Spec

Ernie Prabhakar: While there is as yet no definitive URL for the official spec, here is the last publicly available version, as posted on syndication-dev by Pete Alcorn

Steve Harris: Just to summarise what I think has changed

I’ve updated the FeedValidator to handle these changes.  Now I need to think about how to handle a number of co-occurence constraints.  Example: it is OK to have an enclosure with a WMV file, but it probably does not make much sense to add iTune specific elements to such an entry.  Example: an encoding of iso-8859-1 is generally OK, but is not guaranteed to work with iTunes.  Example: language is optional, but is a good idea if iTunes tags are present.

iTunes RSS Specification Update

There has been some discussion on Apple’s Syndication Dev mailing list lately about an update to the iTunes RSS specification......

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Undecipherable Specification Error Redux

Last June, I  wrote about a some ambiguities in an Apple spec that were troubling me.  More troubling than the ambiguities was the lack of an ability to have a  conversation.  So I decided to  raise a flag. The technique worked.  It took  multiple  ite... [more]

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