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Weblog:   Coding a Smarter RSS Podcast Button
Subject:   Can you syndicate podcasts w/ RSS 1.0
Date:   2005-10-11 14:50:58
From:   DavidBattino
Response to: Can you syndicate podcasts w/ RSS 1.0

Apparently, but why would you want to? The Wikipedia RSS entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)#Incompatibilities) says, “The RSS 2.* branch was the first to support enclosures, making it the current leading choice for podcasting, and as of mid-2005 is the format supported for that use by iTunes and other podcasting software; however, an enclosure extension is now available for the RSS 1.* branch, mod_enclosure” (see http://www.xs4all.nl/~foz/mod_enclosure.html).


More here: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/it_turns_out_rs.html


—David

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  • Can you syndicate podcasts w/ RSS 1.0
    2005-10-11 19:36:08  Chirael [Reply | View]

    Apparently, but why would you want to?

    Mainly because the only good, simple Python RSS module I could find (RSS.py - see http://www.mnot.net/python/RSS.py and http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/310322) only produces RSS 1.0 feed files, and I've already written code against that module.

    So it would be far easier to use RSS 1.0 if possible, rather than having to hunt down a 2.0-producing Python module (which I did try, btw) and then maintaining two RSS modules. Thanks for the mod_enclosure link, maybe that will work :-/

    If you know of a simple RSS 2.0 producing Python module, though, that would probably end up helping a lot too, since I suspect I'll be forced to code to support what's out there.

    Thanks.
    • Can you syndicate podcasts w/ RSS 1.0
      2005-10-11 20:52:17  Chirael [Reply | View]

      I found http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html which may work.
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