[wp-hackers] WordPress eXtended RSS DTD

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Jul 18 13:53:51 GMT 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Xavier Borderie <xavier at borderie.net> wrote:
> Yet Geoffrey is right too. The good thing with using XML is that it
> helps portability, yet without a proper DTD, WXR is as useful to other
> projects as a straight file-dump would be.

Really? Okay, then please point out where the *official* RSS2 DTD file
resides, eh?

Sure, you can find one people made, but the scheme itself got wide
acceptance without one. You don't need a DTD to read a file, a DTD is
only really for validation, and even then it doesn't really validate
the data, just the format.


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