Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes

Interesting - it looks like the RSS feeds generated by Blogger are missing the RSS 1.0 namespace. Funny that nobody has noticed this - I guess most RSS parsers just munge namespaces altogether and assume that RSS (even 1.0) tags are valid in the default namespace.

Here's the <rdf:RDF> element from a Movable Type-generated RSS 1.0 feed (Phil Ringnalda):

<rdf:RDF
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
        xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
        xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
        xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
        xmlns:rss091="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/rss091#">

Here's evhead's one:

<rdf:RDF
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
        xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
        xmlns:l="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/"
        xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

Oddly enough, it validates as RSS. Isn't the namespace mandatory in RSS 1.0? Mark?

Hey, this is cool: Extended Slices.

Python 2.3 will let you say things like a[1:10:2] to mean elements 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 of a. a[::2] gives you all the even elements of a. Nice!

Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for the link.