March 30, 2003
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The Road To Wrestlemania, XHTML in RSS and Posting Comments from RSS Bandit
Wrestlemania XIX

Some coworkers and I have tickets to the soldout Wrestlemania XIX being held at Safeco field. Checking out the Official Wrestlemania website it seems the fight I'll be most looking forward to is Hulk Hogan vs. Vince McMahon. The Rock vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin also looks like it might be an interesting match.

I haven't been a fan of professional wrestling since my mid-teens but it isn't every day that Wrestlemania is held in your back yard. This should be fun.

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Posting from RSS Bandit and XHTML in RSS

More and more people keep signing up for the RSS Bandit project. I am up to 41 developers signed up on the RSS Bandit workspace and 19 signed up on the RSS components workspace.

I've integrated Joe Feser's code [with patch from Torsten] for caching files on disk into the RSS Bandit release but just realized I didn't fully test it in a non-networked environment. Ideally, all failures to update from the network should fallback to the cached copy which it looked like the code was doing but I need to double check.

I noticed Sam Ruby's blog now supports the Comment API. This means I'll definitely be adding features that enable posting replies to a blog entry directly from the RSS Bandit interface in the next few days. Sam supports two mechanisms for specifying how to post to a blog entry from the RSS feed; the first is the Comment API specced by Joe Gregorio which seems fairly straightforward and some SOAP mechanism which seems overkill. Joe Gregorio compares both mechanisms and seems to imply the same thing. The only thing I think the heavyweight SOAP version has going for it is that it could probably piggy back on one or more of the many WS-* specs out there to support things like posting securely and authentication. For instance, I'd love to provide the same mechanism for my K5 diary but since only logged in K5 users can post to K5 there is an authentication/security issue which none of the current proposals supports directly.

I'll definitely add support to Joe's CommentAPI to RSS Bandit but I doubt I'll be doing the same for Sam's alternative SOAP version since I can't see any motivation for supporting both besides buzzword compliance.

Sam Ruby and Don Box have gone on a kick to replace content:encoded in RSS feeds with xhtml:body. This means that instead of the content of a blog entry being stored as escaped HTML in an XML document it is stored as well-formed XML from the XHTML namespace. On the surface I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this. The first question that came to mind is which flavor of XHTML is going to be used by RSS? The W3C HTML working group made the charming decision of having one namespace for XHTML, http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml , but giving it 3 DTDs. So just looking at Sam's feed I can't tell whether his xhtml:body actually contains XHTML-Strict or XHTML-Transitional.

Oops, I need to head to Safeco field. I'm late for meeting my friends for Wrestlemania. I'll pick this up later in the week.

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