SixDay RSS Feed

Davey Crockett said:

Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails.

Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M
validators regularly:
http://feedvalidator.org/

But that validator warns that you serve
http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss
as
application/octet-stream
which is a bad idea, it should be
application/rss+xml
I think.

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Martin Honnen

Davey Crockett <[email hidden]> wrote...

Quoted message said:

Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails.

*** Mine works. :-)

KA
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Martin Honnen said:

Davey Crockett said:

Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails.
Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and
W3M
validators regularly:
http://feedvalidator.org/

But that validator warns that you serve
http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss
as
application/octet-stream
which is a bad idea, it should be
application/rss+xml
I think.

Actually it is the .xml file that should be evaluated and not the .rss as you
seem to have done and you will find that the .xml validates without reservation.

Even though the two files are identical, the FeedValidator validator returns
different results for the different extensions. However, to keep certain
Bloggerz/Aggregatorz/RSS Readerz happy, both files exist on the server.

Interestingly, I had always regarded the W3C validator as the last word on
HTML perfection, but it's an interesting fact though, that changing the code
to get the W3C validator to put the seal of approval on the feed (by adding a
dtd) results in every other validator that was tried failing to validate it 🙂

I'm no guru of SGML (in any of its variants except perhaps html) and have too
many irons in the fire to be able to spend any time researching the precise
cause of the anomalies, but at least everyone that I have heard from can read
the feed now. I will investigate it further when time allows though..

I strongly suspect that at least part of the problem is that xml 0.91 is being
employed, and that is a Netscape standard designed I suspect to suit their
own browser/user agent.

Such is life I suppose

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