Re: top level domain name in "author" tag of RSS feed.

Sam Ruby wrote:

> The W3C validator periodically re-synchs with feedvalidator.org.

Thanks for info, based on it I was just trying to update the old
list address for http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.validator.feed
with the new google address, but I found that somebody (maybe you)
did this already back in July.

> * just this morning, I took the suggestion of Stephane and checked
>   for the TLDs in the IANA registry -- both short, longer, and IDNAs.
> * should the name not match the registry, the feed validator will
>   check to see if the name resolves via DNS.  If so, no warning is
>   issued.

Sounds like a good approximation of RFC 3696.  Beware of the ugly
domain literals.  Maybe catch 'localhost' as "not good enough" no
matter what your DNS server says.  If it's no domain literal it must
have at least one dot for RFC 2821 and I-D 2821bis.

>> BTW, has RSS 2.0 some kind of "official" schema or at least a DTD ?
 
> RSS 0.91 as a DTD, RSS 1.0 and Atom 1.0 have schemas (RDF and RelaxNG 
> respectively).

So far for RSS 2.0 ;-)

 Frank
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Received on Friday, 2 November 2007 21:48:17 UTC