[documentation] Re: NEED CHANGE IN RSS OUTPUT

[Charlie Lowe]

I'd have to agree with this statement, too. I can imagine a lot of 
people using news aggregators would be annoyed by having the blog name 
prefixed in front of the title (I know I would be).

Besides, Drupal's current implementation meets the RSS 2.0 specification:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss

One of Drupal's main design principles is to work "toward" adhering to 
web standards. Discussing moving away from a web standard seems 
counterproductive, IMHO, and would require a general change in 
philosophy about how Drupal should be designed.  Thus, this dicussion is 
moot. Might as well suggest that Drupal should do away with nodes (lol).


Morbus Iff wrote:
> 
> I agree with UnConeD (below): overloading a feed's item with the title 
> of the site is wrong: there's a channel title element for that.
> 
>  "- It harms usability by putting non-specific and unrelated data (the
>     feed/site title) in a specific field (the item title). The feed's
>     title and source are already sent elsewhere in the feed, so that any
>     good newsreader can (and does) show it in an appropriate fashion
>     to the user when they ask for it."
> 
> [1] http://www.disobey.com/node/1554
>