[georss] Georss extension

Gregor J. Rothfuss gregor at apache.org
Sat Sep 9 23:05:52 EDT 2006


Raj Singh wrote:
> It seems reasonable to put those tags inside the <georss:where> element
> since they relate to location. They, of course, wouldn't be 'official'
> GeoRSS elements, but good parsers should ignore anything they don't
> understand, and as long as the required GeoRSS elements were included, it
> would still be well-formed GeoRSS.

um, no. this is what namespaces are for. either it is documented and 
part of georss, or it is in its own namespace. undocumented elements are 
a really bad idea. just look at the unfortunate mess google made with 
kml and its undocumented elements:

http://kml.tjworld.net/#ColorStyle

-gregor

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