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Steve Harris: A much more clear, consistent and readable specification for the iTunes RSS Specification is now available, dated 7/7/2005: [link]

The previous specification appears to be gone. (Google Cache in HTML format)

• block still is underspecified and without an example.
• category no longer has an explicit list of permissible categories and sub-categories?
• duration is explicit about how it can be subsetted.  Excellent.
• values for explicit are now lowercase.  I’m going to continue to presume that case is not significant.
• keywords is unchanged, and did not have any issues before.
• image apparently has a href attribute.  Can it be relative, or must it be absolute?  No examples.  For now, I’m going to assume absolute.
• owner doesn’t indicate which nested elements are required.  Previously, email was required.  Name is now limited to 255 characters.
• subtitle is unchanged, and did not have any issues before.
• summary is unchanged, and did not have any issues before.

Additionally: guid is now recommended for any entries which contain a podcast (excellent).

enclosure is limited to five supported extensions.  Apparently, file extensions are used instead of the type attribute.  The latter would have seemed to be more general purpose.

The wording recommending utf-8 seems to be stronger now.

I’ll try to get these changes into the FeedValidator by tomorrow.