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Three cheers for RDF and xml:base!

9 Sep

Posted by Ilya Grigorik as Features

Several coffee pots and one productive weekend later, we’re happy to roll out an entire suite of updates to our codebase:

RDF (RSS 1.0) support

We’ve extended AideRSS to fully support RDF/RSS 1.0 and Dublin Core Metadata initiatives. Big thank you goes to all the beta testers who have helped us test-drive the new system.

xml:base and relative URI support

Daniel Aleksandersen gave us the lead on this one. Some Atom and RSS 1.0 feeds use xml:base to set the base URI for all internal links, and we’re happy to say that AideRSS will now properly handle these cases.

Other:

Improved XML detection & recovery for malformed feeds.
Faster & more frequent feed updates across the entire site.

By: Ilya Grigorik
Founder / AideRSS CTO by day, and a blogger by night.
Twitter: @igrigorik Email: ilya@aiderss.com

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Ilya Grigorik 1 year ago 1 point
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Daniel, indeed we're increasingly noticing xml:base appearing more and more often in a lot of feeds. The Wordpress move would certainly explain this trend!

For Dublin Core, we currently support it in Atom / RSS 1.0 and we are planning to extend support for RSS 2.0 in the near future.

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Daniel Aleksandersen 1 year ago 1 point
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Newer versions of WordPress includes xml:base by default. Now was really a good time to add support.

A question about the Dublin Core support: Do you look for Dublin Core metadata in other formats such as Atom 1 and RSS 2, as well?

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