RSS Feed is broken
Tue, May 10 2011, 10:08AM
About a week or so ago, the RSS feed from the Gramophone forum was broken.
My preferred aggregator (RSSOwl) is reporting stream syntax errors that can be checked on "feedvalidator". The error is because the "dc" namespace is not declared in the stream header. To fix it, your element:
<rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://www.gramophone.co.uk" >
should be:
<rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://www.gramophone.co.uk" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
or something similar.
HtH!
Mark.
Fri, May 13 2011, 7:51PM
#2
RE: RSS Feed is broken
Of course, another alternative is not to use the Dublin Core namespace at all, but use <author ../> elements, but then the name has to be an email address (or at least parse as one).
RSS is a mess - your IT people could also consider ATOM perhaps.
:-)
Mark.
Hello,
Many thanks for bringing this to our attention - I'll brief our IT team and hopefully they'll fix it swiftly.
Best wishes,
Martin
Editor, Gramophone