Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS

Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by redwall_hp on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:01PM (#12639435)

To be honest, they're basically interchangeable. Most parsing libraries will handle both, and it's entirely down to preference.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by firasd on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:20PM (#12640051)

But working on a blogging engine (producing feeds) or saying parsing libraries will handle it is just externalizing the problems with RSS to the consumers. That's where the real pain point is: understanding the content of an RSS feed, especially when thousands of feeds can have a multitude of different quirks.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by narrowrail on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:45PM (#12639770)

From my [not extensive] research, ATOM open source libraries have better support for authenticated feeds.

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