[georss] Georss extension
Raj Singh
raj at rajsingh.org
Tue Sep 12 07:09:12 EDT 2006
Well, yes you're probably right those "extension" elements shouldn't be in
the georss ns. I was overlooking that question and just reacting to where
they might be located.
--Raj
On 9/10/06 5:05 AM, "Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor at apache.org> wrote:
> 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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