Dare Obasanjo points out that first Yahoo and now Apple have added proprietary tags to RSS in the process of adding podcasting support to their sites. I don’t believe either vetted their extensions with the community before releasing them. It seems to me that the probable solution is for the community to figure out a way to handle the functionality provided by these extensions in a standard way and then just transform the XML based on what’s requesting it.
Extending RSS
Dare Obasanjo points out that first Yahoo and now Apple have added proprietary tags to RSS in the process of adding podcasting support to their sites. I don’t believe either vetted their extensions with the community before releasing them. It seems to me that the probable solution is for the community to figure out a way to handle the functionality provided by these extensions in a standard way and then just transform the XML based on what’s requesting it.
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