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See http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx#nn2003-03-29T06:15:00Z

Are you going to make the change too?

Is there an example anywhere of a feed using <xhtml:body>?

Ok, being unable to find any example of this in the wild, I created an example.  Does this look like what you guys are thinking?  Same namespace?  We're about 2 days past a NewsGator code freeze, but this is such a trivial change, I'm thinking about checking it in for Monday's 1.1 release.

And re-running through our entire test suite...bummer.

Greg, this does look like what I was thinking about. I've updated the stylesheet that emits the RSS 2.0 to match your example ( modulo where the ns decl for xhtml appears ). It'll get propped sometime on Monday I would guess. Here's hoping you do add support to the 1.1 release.

Good luck with the test suite...

This is close. Note that the child elements of body (e.g., div, p) also need to be affiliated with the xhtml namespace.

Hopefully Gudge will make the change to everyone's blog at GDN at once (perhaps by having them all share a common code/xslt base for their RSS feeds?).

Looks like GDN is "upgrading" at the moment.  Once I see it in the wild, I'll update my 2.0 feed.

Sam, this is great.

I just talked to Gudge. He'll prop the changes for at least his and my feeds - unfortunately we probably won't see it until Monday.

Each item will look just like Greg's example, except that all children of xhtml:body will be qualified by the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace (per XHTML 1.0).

I'll coordinate with ChrisAn to patch blogx this weekend as well.

Ok, cool.  My code will work either way (html elements either in or not in xhtml namespace), so I think we're good to go.  Barring any critical problems between now and Monday, this should go into NG 1.1.

If anyone gets a sample that looks like what you're planning to go with, can you post it somewhere so I can do a final test against it before shipping?  If I could see it by Saturday evening, it would help immensely... :-)

I updated the sample to add the xhtml namespace to the body's child elements.

Your updated example looks perfect.

I'm assuming that NG/1.1 doesn't care about which prefix (if any) I use.

That's correct - NG doesn't care what prefix you use.

The preferred prefix, though,  is "buynewsgator".

:-)

Better than average results for adding something unexpected to RSS, too: Radio and Syndirella refuse to believe that they can subscribe to the test feed, but the other six aggregators I tried (Aggie, AmphetaDesk, NewzCrawler, Effbot, Wildgrape NewsDesk, and Awasu) all subscribed and saw the title/description/link without any problem.

Radio and Syndirella may be rejecting Greg's example because the top-level channel is missing the link and description child elements.

RSS/2.0 lists these elements as required.

D'oh. Radio even said that it was missing the link element, but I just assumed it meant an item link and was confused about what the xhtml:body element really was. Bad me.

I updated the example to include the link and description elements.

I also added some markup inside the body element, to make sure we all agree what this should look like...I actually had to fix something to make this work, so I thought I'd make sure you guys agree what it should look like.

Inside the <xhtml:body> element, the text now says:

content here demonstrating use of &lt;xhtml:body&gt; element.

Which of course would be rendered in the readers as

content here demonstrating use of <xhtml:body> element.

Looks right to me...is this what you guys would expect as well inside the XML?

Don uncaves.  ;-) Accordingly, I've converted my rss 2.0 feed from <content:encoded> to the to the more bandwidth and xpath friendly <xhtml:body>.  It looks like gotdotnet and blogx users will soon follow. Hopefully  the ...

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Cool, Sam, your new feeds are working well with NG 1.1.

One gotcha for people parsing feeds like this - make sure you set your parser to preserve whitespace, or you may end up with an inaccurate rendering.

I've converted my rss 2.0 feed from <content:encoded> to the more bandwidth and xpath friendly <xhtml:body>. It looks like gotdotnet and blogx users will soon follow. Hopefully the owners of the wellformedweb and w3future weblogs will...

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Greg,

Your new example looks perfect. Feel free to either (a) make the top-level channel elements point to my site or (b) dummy-up the item elements. Right now, you have a "real" item from my blog but totally fictitious channel title/link/description.

I'd hate for anyone to get confused.

Yeah, yours was the closest bit of RSS I had handy when I was hacking that up. :-)  I fixed it so as not to confuse.

By the way, Don, your latest post on your own weblog about this stuff looks good on your site, but the encoded text in the RSS file is pretty broken - the <'s and >'s aren't encoded, so it won't render as intended.

Yet another reason to move to <xhtml;body>!

It looks like a nested escaping problem - I'll make sure it works right by Monday.

Interesting stuff.
Has anyone actually written down the desired or even 'correct' interpretation of an xhtml:body element by an RSS agent? There are quite a few associated issues - for example, can an item have multiple xhtml:body elements? what if there is also a content:encoded element - should a newsreader display one in preference or both?

My interpretation, as implemented in NewsGator 1.1, is that there will be a single xhtml:body element, just like there is a single description element.  I'm not sure what the intention would be behind multiple elements, but NewsGator would pick the first one.

And it will display xhtml:body if present, otherwise content:encoded if present, otherwise description.

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Does anyone know where to find some C# source that converts HTML to XHTML?

I've posted some additional comments on what it'll take to get this widely adopted.

Does anyone know where to find some C# source that converts HTML to XHTML?

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Hrm. Two Mike Sax posts today that I'd like to comment on. Too bad I'm not willing to abuse Sam as a comment host for other people's weblogs. Any more than I already do. Mike: care to join the community? If you don't want to write your own comment solution, I know where to get code in PHP, Perl, and Python (and that's a hint about one comment).

It may not be now or never, but it's certainly now or later...