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by James Robertson.
Original Post: RSS 1.1
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I share a lot of Rogers Cahdenhead's frustration over RSS 1.1 - it's another solution in search of a problem - see here for the format that exists due to antipathy for Dave Winer. However, there's a reason I added support for it to BottomFeeder - I just knew that Id get asked about it, and it's simpler to pre-empt that and just add support. It was simple enough; I subclassed the RSS 1.0 handler and overrode 4 methods in the subclass - done. I'm entirely unclear as to what problem it solves, but there it is...
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