Re: Enclosure count

[David Jacobs <djacobs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I had only read one side of the debate, so my information was
incomplete. My apologies, and thanks Sam for the response.


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:59:07 -0500, Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Jacobs wrote:
> > RSS 2.0 DOES have a one enclosure per entry restriction, so we're
> > breaking RSS2 compatibility. Why wouldn't multiple enclosures be
> > multiple posts?
> 
> Where does it say that RSS 2.0 has a one enclosure per entry restriction?
> 
> There have been discussions about whether or not RSS has such a
> restriction.  Some of these discussions took place on the feedvalidator
> mailing list.  Rogers Cadenhead (a member of the RSS Advisory Board)
> hosted some on his weblog.
> 
> The current state of RSS enclosures seems to be: there are some tools
> that produce multiple enclosures per item.  And there are some tools
> which can't handle multiple enclosures per item.  Both set of tools can
> point to the spec to prove that they are "right".
> 
> http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/comments?u=reallySimpleSyndic&p=221&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reallysimplesyndication.com%2F2004%2F12%2F21%23a221
> http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/comment/2424
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6237032&forum_id=37467
> http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/comment/2425
> 
> - Sam Ruby
> 
>