validation warning avoid foo:bar

  • I am using WordPress v 2.0.3 installed 1 week ago (aug 12, 2006).

    My journey begins at Yahoo, trying to add my new feed. They suggest validate before I submit the feed – the link is:

    https://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mkgappraisal.com%2Fblog%2Ffeed

    I got 2 “warnings” – they say the feed is valid, but….

    first one was easy to fix – edit wp-rss2.php find 2 places where the file says:
    wfw:commentRSS
    and change it to:
    wfw:commentRss

    The SS is case sensitive. The Validator has a warning message/page that mentions WordPress specifically. Has this “bug” already been fixed in the latest version?

    Here is my question –

    the “warning” says: avoid content:encoded – with one occurrence for each post. The details:

    Avoid foo:bar
    Avoid using elements in namespaces when there are already core elements that do the same thing.
    The item contains an element that duplicates the semantics of the description element. Be advised that clients will behave unpredictably in the presence of such an element: some will prefer it over the description element, others will ignore it, and the behavior may depend on the order in which such elements appear in the item.
    link:
    https://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/DuplicateDescriptionSemantics.html

    can someone please help me deal with this? Should I ignore it because it is only a warning and not an error? Is there a reasonable fix?

    thanks in advance

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  • “content:encoded” contains HTML (that’s the “encoded” part) which allows your feed to keep any formatting or links you include in a post. Feed Validator doesn’t prefer that, but Feed Validator is picky that way.

    Ignore it, I say. Most feed readers deal with “content:encoded” just fine. Feed Validator is still trying to get itself sorted, so I don’t trust it for any kind of final word on the matter.

    I’m not positive about this, but I seem to recall reading or discovering that those readers that do not handle “content:encoded” well simply ignore that content, anyhow (which shouldn’t be too bad because you have a blurb of your entries listed in “description” in your feed).

    As far as the “RSS” to “Rss,” I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve looked at a few WordPress sites in some feed readers and everything displays just fine.

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