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I've been watching the RSS 2.0 stuff with a little bit of trepidation, not because of the battle between Winer and various members of the RSS-Dev community and all that stuff, really I could give a F*CK but because there seems to be a movement in this "syndication format" to allow every syndicator to choose their own namespaces, and to roll their own elements for these namespaces. What does that make RSS then, a language for writing syndication languages? >From the RSS 2.0 spec "It's very simple. A RSS feed may contain elements not described on this page, only if those elements are defined in a namespace. " http://backend.userland.com/rss Sam Ruby's comment in his Blog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/2002/09/10.html#a818 ...."hey, Jon, get your own namespace ". and this article by Morbus Iff http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/extendingrss2/ Now it's not like I cared much for RSS 1.0; I didn't, I didn't see the point of RDF being in there, but this just seems crazy. Can anyone see any sense to what seems to me an invitation to infinite namespacing? Critiques?
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