[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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