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SixDay RSS Feed
Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails.
Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M validators regularly: http://feedvalidator.org/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/2004/02/02 http://validator.w3.org/ (W3C will return a single dtd error) But just for informational purposes, clicking the ''Validate'' button on the News Page on the site will validate it for you if you think the feed is borked. If it validates (which it will) and you still cannot read it, try the RocketInfo RSS Reader/Aggregator - which takes the .rss rather than .xml file extension. Yeah. It's confusing with half a gerzillion ''standards'' an' umpteen versions of each with ******z like Gatez and Nut$crape tryin' to lock folks in with their own proprietory versions but the SixDay feed should work with just about any Blogger/RSS Reader/Aggregator If you really are stuck, use the anonymous email form on the website and ask for help nicely. -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site - current year Sixes: http://sixday.741.com/2004-2005/2004-2005.html Latest Road Racing news at http://sixday.741.com/news.html RSS feed: http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss (or .xml) |
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Davey Crockett wrote: Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M validators regularly: http://feedvalidator.org/ But that validator warns that you serve http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss as application/octet-stream which is a bad idea, it should be application/rss+xml I think. -- Martin Honnen |
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Davey Crockett wrote: Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M validators regularly: http://feedvalidator.org/ But that validator warns that you serve http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss as application/octet-stream which is a bad idea, it should be application/rss+xml I think. -- Martin Honnen |
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Davey Crockett wrote...
Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. *** Mine works. :-) KA --- www.nootrope.net |
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Davey Crockett wrote...
Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. *** Mine works. :-) KA --- www.nootrope.net |
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Martin Honnen writes:
Davey Crockett wrote: Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M validators regularly: http://feedvalidator.org/ But that validator warns that you serve http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss as application/octet-stream which is a bad idea, it should be application/rss+xml I think. Actually it is the .xml file that should be evaluated and not the .rss as you seem to have done and you will find that the .xml validates without reservation. Even though the two files are identical, the FeedValidator validator returns different results for the different extensions. However, to keep certain Bloggerz/Aggregatorz/RSS Readerz happy, both files exist on the server. Interestingly, I had always regarded the W3C validator as the last word on HTML perfection, but it's an interesting fact though, that changing the code to get the W3C validator to put the seal of approval on the feed (by adding a dtd) results in every other validator that was tried failing to validate it I'm no guru of SGML (in any of its variants except perhaps html) and have too many irons in the fire to be able to spend any time researching the precise cause of the anomalies, but at least everyone that I have heard from can read the feed now. I will investigate it further when time allows though.. I strongly suspect that at least part of the problem is that xml 0.91 is being employed, and that is a Netscape standard designed I suspect to suit their own browser/user agent. Such is life I suppose -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site - current year Sixes: http://sixday.741.com/2004-2005/2004-2005.html Latest Road Racing news at http://sixday.741.com/news.html RSS feed: http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss |
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Martin Honnen writes:
Davey Crockett wrote: Please no more ''Yer feed don't work'' type emails. Firstly it's beat against each of the FreeValidator, Harvard Law and W3M validators regularly: http://feedvalidator.org/ But that validator warns that you serve http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss as application/octet-stream which is a bad idea, it should be application/rss+xml I think. Actually it is the .xml file that should be evaluated and not the .rss as you seem to have done and you will find that the .xml validates without reservation. Even though the two files are identical, the FeedValidator validator returns different results for the different extensions. However, to keep certain Bloggerz/Aggregatorz/RSS Readerz happy, both files exist on the server. Interestingly, I had always regarded the W3C validator as the last word on HTML perfection, but it's an interesting fact though, that changing the code to get the W3C validator to put the seal of approval on the feed (by adding a dtd) results in every other validator that was tried failing to validate it I'm no guru of SGML (in any of its variants except perhaps html) and have too many irons in the fire to be able to spend any time researching the precise cause of the anomalies, but at least everyone that I have heard from can read the feed now. I will investigate it further when time allows though.. I strongly suspect that at least part of the problem is that xml 0.91 is being employed, and that is a Netscape standard designed I suspect to suit their own browser/user agent. Such is life I suppose -- le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett Six Day Site - current year Sixes: http://sixday.741.com/2004-2005/2004-2005.html Latest Road Racing news at http://sixday.741.com/news.html RSS feed: http://sixday.741.com/rssfeed/newsfeed.rss |
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