James
Snell: Personally, I don't see how there should be a
precedence issue here. dc:subject and description are two different
properties defined in two different namespaces
If they are so different, they why do every instance I find in
your RSS feed
have the same value as their corresponding mate in the same
item?
I suspect that most aggregators that do pretty much anything
with these elements treat them both as synonmys. I know that Mark's
liberal
parser does. So, if you really want your entries to show up
twice in views sorted by subject, or to have each subject category
repeated repeated twice twice, they by all means do so: it is your
rss feed feed.
As I said, they may have overlapping meanings, but they're two different properties in two different namespaces. Being redundant may be bad form, but it's not illegal, it's just bad form ;-) ...
the validator should make suggestions like, "Hey, using dc:subject and description in the same item is redundant, you dolt!" but it shouldn't throw up on me.
perhaps Mr. Snell has changed his feed in response to your comments but every /rss/channel/item/description I see is different from it's sibling dc:subject.