Help with this feed..

Hillel points out a cool site making fun of bad design… I find so many parallels in these kind of design issues and API design.  Anyway, I was excited to see that the site offers Xml Syndication, which I assumed was an RSS feed, but it is not.. in a an “rdf” file… which looks like some type of Xml, but SharpReader doesn’t seem to understand it… http://broken.typepad.com/b/index.rdf  

 

Any suggestions on how I can subscribe?   

Published 27 November 03 10:33 by BradA
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# Dare Obasanjo said on November 27, 2003 10:41 PM:
RSS Bandit can subscribe to it fine and the feed validator says it's valid so I suggest sending a bug report to Luke.
# Brad Wilson, The .NET Guy said on November 27, 2003 10:54 PM:
In a quick visual inspection, it appears to be an RSS 1.0 feed, which is based on RDF.
# Shannon J Hager said on November 27, 2003 11:34 PM:
I dragged the link you posted into the address bar in SharpReader and it worked fine for me. Subscribed!
# Leon Bambrick said on November 27, 2003 11:35 PM:
As Dare said, RSSBandit (rssbandit.org) can read it fine. I've used both and have to say, RSSBandit wins by quite some way. Sharpreader has a few small advantages - but nothing you can't live without. I'd like to get a week off work, just to help out on the RssBandit bandit project- Do employers ever offer such a thing as OpenSourceLeave?
# John said on November 28, 2003 1:19 AM:
Worked fine in SharpReader for me - maybe you need the latest version?
# Anand said on November 28, 2003 1:19 AM:
RDF is RSS 1.0. Sharpreader handles it well as Typepad by default offers RDF and I use typepad for my blog...:-) You can write your own extention to typepad to generate rss 2.0, which I have done, but then you need to be an typepad pro account for that...
# Kevin Daly said on November 28, 2003 2:09 AM:
As others have said, it's RSS 1.0 (guess why hardly anybody uses RSS 1.0). This probably isn't helpful, but Syndirella (http://yole.ru/projects/syndirella/) handles it without even mentioning the barbarity of the format. I knew there was some reason why I put up with its idiosyncracies (that, and it's written in C# and I can fiddle with it).
# R said on November 28, 2003 2:56 AM:
SharpReader 0.9.2.1 adds this fine. Maybe it was just generating a bad feed at the time, give it another try ...
# Brad Abrams said on November 28, 2003 10:47 AM:
Ahh -- must have just been a bad feed at the time -- it seems to work now... thanks for the help!
# vitabath said on December 5, 2003 8:26 PM:
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