Brian Sweeting

From reading Dave Fletcher’s weblog, I see that part of the new Utah.gov portal launch includes the incorporation of RSS feeds for news. Just for fun, I thought I’d see if the RSS feeds would validate and unfortunately 2 of 3 failed to validate

• Utah Headlines RSS validation results (valid)
• Governor’s News RSS validation results (invalid)
• Business Portal RSS validation results (invalid)

Now I understand that these are new feeds and there are always bugs to work out, but hopefully the necessary steps will be taken to ensure that these new RSS feeds are valid.

On a side note, I also checked the Spanish Fork RSS feeds and they were not valid due to a change I made a couple of days ago by adding a dublin core (dc) date without specifying the appropriate namespaces. I have fixed this problem and both the news and events feeds are now valid.