Content Syndication with RSS

Name

mod_admin

Synopsis

The Administration module, written by Aaron Swartz and Ken Macleod, provides information on the feed’s owner and the toolkit used to produce it. This helps the RSS user work with his provider to get things right, and it helps the RSS community at large to identify problems with certain systems.

Recommended Usage

It is good manners to include this module as a matter of course. The data is not dynamically created, so it can be included within a template and just left to do its job.

Namespace

The namespace prefix for this module is admin:, which should point to http://webns.net/mvcb/. Therefore, the root element and the RSS 1.0 module containing mod_admin should look like this:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
         xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
         xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/">

Elements

The mod_admin elements occur as subelements of channel only. They consist of:

<admin:errorReportsTo rdf:resource="URI"/>

The URI is typically a mailto: URL for contacting the feed administrator to report technical errors.

<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="URI"/>

The URI is the home page of the software used to generate the feed. If possible, this should be a page that specifies a version number within the URI.

Example

Example 7-1. mod_admin in the channel element

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
         xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
         xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"> <channel rdf:about="http://rss.benhammersley.com/index.rdf"> ...