Comments feed
March 31st, 2003 by gregr
I’ve added the RSS 2.0 <author> element to my comments feed, which will make it easier to tell at a glance who posted the comment. Maybe Sam will follow suit - his comments feeds are pretty active…
NewsGator users, just make sure the “From” column is part of the view for that feed, and you’ll be all set!
Update: it would be cool if those of you who have combined feeds for multiple weblogs would support this as well. Mike already does this for the EraBlog combined feed (with dc:creator, pretty much equivalent to author); Scott, how about dotnetweblogs.com’s combined feed?
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March 31st, 2003 at 1:09 pm
Author Element…[more]
March 31st, 2003 at 2:00 pm
This doesn’t appear to be a valid use of author. See:
http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rassoc.com%2Fgregr%2Fweblog%2Fcommentrss.aspx
Perhaps dc:creator is what you are looking for?
March 31st, 2003 at 2:17 pm
Quite right, Sam…I didn’t realize author was only supposed to contain an email address, but alas, it’s even in the userland spec. That’ll teach me not to validate!
Fixed now - using dc:creator.
March 31st, 2003 at 4:11 pm
Will NewsGator put dc:creator in the From field, then author and finally feed name (in descending order of preference)?
March 31st, 2003 at 4:16 pm
The preference between author and dc:creator is not defined, and if the feed defines both, either one could be used.
However, (author or creator) will be used in preference to feed name, if present.
April 1st, 2003 at 8:21 am
OK, as long as creator is picked up.
April 1st, 2003 at 8:29 pm
.NETWeblogs.com Aggregated Feed Update…[more]
April 1st, 2003 at 9:56 pm
When you say a week or so…stick with it…[more]