Rodent Regatta

A long debate began last week concerning RSS feeds and the formatting of those feeds. Apparently, each feed is made up of a list of elements. There are (also apparently) two main parts of an element. One is the tag or the identifier of the element and the other is the data. So, there’s something like pubDate which I’m calling the tag or identifier. Then, there’s the actual date itself.

Well, as the saga has continued, lots of people have weighed in with opinions about what makes for a ”proper” RSS feed. Proper is usually NOT defined as, ”It works fine in the RSS feed readers.” No, proper means something far more arcane, technical and precise. Absent that precision, funky is the desired descriptor.

Perhaps Brad Choate has provided the ”final word.” Now for the tough part – what specific steps do I execute to come into compliance?