History of RSS date formats
Mark Pilgrim: History of RSS date formats. As usual, Mark’s great essay is clear and resourceful. It’s really helpful on remember how’s it come to today’s argument on pubdate v.s. dc:date.
When there’s people writing guideline on RSS, pointing the confusing parts, there’s still confusing RSS feeds (as Simon pointed out there’re some feeds that have a pubdate element use ISO8601 date). I don’t get it. Did these people hand-code their feed? Or did it generate by some legacy tools? How to fix those bugs in tool generating bad-formed XML? Getting 99% RSS feed upgraded, so aggregator don’t have to parse at all cost? The development of all these XML formats went through what HTML has been there, the difference is there are less players (browser) in HTML world.
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June 21, 2003 11:19 PM | MovableType & Blogging
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