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mikepurvis
03-02-2005, 06:13 PM
It seems to choke on tags with ':' in them.
Anyone got an insight as to why this is? (I'm just view-sourcing other people's feeds to figure out the structure...)
The feed: http://uwmike.com/feed/
Validation link: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=uwmike.com%2Ffeed
Thanks.
AdamGundry
03-04-2005, 02:14 PM
In XML tags, a colon is used for working with namespaces (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/), and should not be used otherwise. You may find this FAQ (http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm) helpful, or try a web search on "xml namespaces".
Adam
mikepurvis
03-05-2005, 11:09 AM
Originally posted by AdamGundry
In XML tags, a colon is used for working with namespaces (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/), and should not be used otherwise. You may find this FAQ (http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm) helpful, or try a web search on "xml namespaces".
Adam
Hmm... okay.
I was using Mr. Shea's feed (http://www.mezzoblue.com/rss/index.xml) as a model, and it seems to validate fine, yet uses the colons.
On the other hand, Ryan Brill's feed (http://ryanbrill.com/xml/rss.xml) does no such thing. Perhaps I'll just switch to using his approach as a template.