RSS 0.91 Specification (Netscape)

RSS 0.91 Specification

Archivist's Note: This is the RSS 0.91 specification published by Netscape on July 10, 1999. The current version of the RSS 2.0 specification is available at this link and other revisions have been archived. Netscape transferred this specification to the RSS Advisory Board on Jan. 22, 2008.

RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3
Netscape Communications
Primary Author: Dan Libby
July 10, 1999

Notes

Files must be 100% valid XML. We're trying to move towards a more standard format, and to this end we have included several tags from the popular <scriptingNews> format. We have also ensured that this version is 100% valid XML. We did this by requiring that a DOCTYPE tag be included, and validating each RSS document against that DTD. This means that it is not enough for an RSS document to be "well-formed". It must also be "valid" with respect to its DTD.

No mixed content tags. We are specifically not including any tags that contain mixed content in RSS 0.91. This means that each tag either contains sub-tags only, or text only, not a combination. This is both because we want to keep the format simple, and because our current validation system is not able to handle this type of tag. We also are not allowing any HTML markup beyond the commonly used entities such as " A full list of these are defined in the RSS 0.91 DTD.

New tags for syndication community. Our validator will now allow several new tags through the system, though most of them will not actually be used by Netcenter. However, these may work when syndicating content to other sites. These tags are noted explicitly in the spec as "ignored."

RDF references removed. RSS was originally conceived as a metadata format providing a summary of a website. Two things have become clear: the first is that providers want more of a syndication format than a metadata format. The structure of an RDF file is very precise and must conform to the RDF data model in order to be valid. This is not easily human-understandable and can make it difficult to create useful RDF files. The second is that few tools are available for RDF generation, validation and processing. For these reasons, we have decided to go with a standard XML approach.

Specification

Tags in alphabetical order.

<channel>

Description

information about a particular channel. Everything pertaining to an individual channel is contained within this tag.

Netcenter Usage

Currently displayed on "My Netscape". May use in other locations in the future.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- description
- language
- link
- title
optional:
- copyright
- docs
- image
- item
- lastBuildDate
- managingEditor
- pubDate
- rating
- skipDays
- skipHours
- textinput
- webMaster

Examples

See example 1

<copyright>

Description

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<day>

Description

The day of the week, spelled out in English.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<description>

Description

a plain text description of an item, channel, image, or textinput.

Netcenter Usage

displayed as appropriate depending on context.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example channels

<docs>

Description

This tag should contain a URL that references a description of the channel.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<!DOCTYPE>

Description

Document Type Identifier. This is an XML tag that identifies where to find the definition for this format. It should follow the xml tag. The full DTD is here.

Netcenter Usage

required to ensure document validity

Attributes

1 of these two formats is required:
- rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" ""
- rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd"

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">

<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "">

<height>

Description

Specifies the height of an image. Should be an integer value.

Netcenter Usage

The value must be between 1 and 400. If omitted, the default value is 31.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See image

<hour>

Description

Specifies an hour of the day. Should be an integer value between 0 and 23. See skipHours.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See skipHours

<image>

Description

Specifies an image associated with a channel.

Netcenter Usage

Optionally (user preference) display an image along with the channel content.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- url
- link
- title
optional:
- description
- width
- height

Examples

<image>
<url>http://my.site.com/images/1.gif</url>
<link>http://my.site.com/index.html</link>
<title>my image alt text</title>
</image>

<image>
<url>http://my.site.com/images/1.gif</url>
<link>http://my.site.com/index.html</link>
<title>my image alt text</title>
<width>120</width>
<height>200</height>
</image>

<item>

Description

An item that is associated with a channel. The item should represent a web-page, or subsection within a web page. It should have a unique URL associated with it. Each item must contain a title and a link. A description is optional.

Netcenter Usage

generates a list of links. The description, if supplied, may optionally be viewed by the user as plain text beneath the link. Also, a maximum of 15 items per channel is enforced at this time.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- title
- link
optional:
- description

Examples

<item>
<title>Item #1</title>
<link>http://my.site.com/story1/index.html</link>
</item>

<item> <title>Item #2</title>
<link>http://my.site.com/story2/index.html</link>
<description>Some stuff about this item</description>
</item>

<language>

Description

Specifies the language of a channel. See supported language codes

Netcenter Usage

used to assist user with determining correct page encoding

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 1

<lastBuildDate>

Description

The last time the channel was modified.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<link>

Description

This is a url that a user is expected to click on, as opposed to a <url> that is for loading a resource, such as an image.

Netcenter Usage

must start with either "http://" or "ftp://". All other urls are considered invalid.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See examples

<managingEditor>

Description

The email address of the managing editor of the site, the person to contact for editorial inquiries

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<name>

Description

The name of an object, corresponding to the "name" attribute of an HTML <INPUT> element. Currently, this only applies to textinput.

Netcenter Usage

generates "name" attribute in html form

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See textinput

<pubDate>

Description

Date when channel was published.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<rating>

Description

recommended links rating agencies:
- http://www.w3.org/PICS/raters.htm (W3 maintained list of rating agency links)
- RSACi http://www.rsac.org (Click on 'register' link)
- SafeSurf http://www.safesurf.com/ http://www.safesurf.com/classify/index.html (direct)
User actions:
- Obtain a rating for your site from a well-known rating agency (eg RSACi, SafeSurf)
- Copy rating data into RSS file. Include only the data within the 'content=' attribute.
Expected format:
- starts with "(PICS-1.1"

Netcenter Usage

ignored. May use in the future to dynamically decide page rating.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

Tag obtained from rating agency:

RSS Rating tag:

<rating>(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l r (SS~~000 1))</rating>

<rss>

Description

Identifies begin and end of rss content.

Netcenter Usage

identifies content type

Attributes

required:
- version (must be 0.91)

Sub-elements:

required:
- channel

Examples

<skipDays>

Description

A list of <day>s of the week, in English, indicating the days of the week when your channel will not be updated. As with activeHours, if you know your channel will never be updated on Saturday or Sunday, for example

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- day

Examples

<skipDays>
<day>Saturday</day>
<day>Sunday</day>
</skipDays>

<skipHours>

Description

A list of <hour>s indicating the hours in the day, GMT, when the channel is unlikely to be updated. If this sub-item is omitted, the channel is assumed to be updated hourly.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- hour

Examples

<textinput>

Description

An input field for the purpose of allowing users to submit queries back to the publisher's site. This element should have a title, a link (to a cgi or other processor), a description containing some instructions, and a name, to be used as the name in the HTML tag <input type=text name="[name]">

Netcenter Usage

Displays form for submission back to publisher.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

required:
- title
- link
- description
- name

Examples

<textinput>
<title>Search Now!</title>
<description>Enter your search terms</description>
<name>find</name>
<link>http://my.site.com/search.cgi</link>
</textinput>

<title>

Description

An identifying string for a resource. When used in an item, this is the name of the item's link. When used in an image, this is the Alt text for the image. When used in a channel, this is the channel's title. When used in a textinput, this is the the textinput's title.

Netcenter Usage

displayed as appropriate depending on context.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See examples

<url>

Description

Location to load a resource from. Note that this is slightly different from the link tag, which specifies where a user should be re-directed to if a resource is selected.

Netcenter Usage

must start with either "http://" or "ftp://". All other urls are considered invalid.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See image

<webMaster>

Description

The email address of the webmaster for the site, the person to contact if there are technical problems with the channel.

Netcenter Usage

ignored

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See example 2

<width>

Description

Specifies the width of an image. Should be an integer value.

Netcenter Usage

The value must be between 1 and 144. If omitted, the default value is 88.

Attributes

none

Sub-elements:

none

Examples

See image

<?xml?>

Description

Identifies this as an XML document and specifies encoding. See w3c. Note that this must be on the first line of the document.

Netcenter Usage

required for XML compliance.

Attributes

version: must be "1.0"
encoding: see list

Sub-elements:

none

Example usage:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Shift_JIS"?>

Example 1 - Simple

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss SYSTEM "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<language>en</language>
<description>News and commentary from the cross-platform scripting community.</description>
<link>http://www.scripting.com/</link>
<title>Scripting News</title>
<image>
<link>http://www.scripting.com/</link>
<title>Scripting News</title>
<url>http://www.scripting.com/gifs/tinyScriptingNews.gif</url>
</image>
</channel>
</rss>

Example 2 - Complete

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss SYSTEM "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<copyright>Copyright 1997-1999 UserLand Software, Inc.</copyright>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 1999 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Jul 1999 16:20:26 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<docs>http://my.userland.com/stories/storyReader$11</docs>
<description>News and commentary from the cross-platform scripting community.</description>
<link>http://www.scripting.com/</link>
<title>Scripting News</title>
<image>
<link>http://www.scripting.com/</link>
<title>Scripting News</title>
<url>http://www.scripting.com/gifs/tinyScriptingNews.gif</url>
<height>40</height>
<width>78</width>
<description>What is this used for?</description>
</image>
<managingEditor>dave@userland.com (Dave Winer)</managingEditor>
<webMaster>dave@userland.com (Dave Winer)</webMaster>
<language>en-us</language>
<skipHours>
<hour>6</hour>
<hour>7</hour>
<hour>8</hour>
<hour>9</hour>
<hour>10</hour>
<hour>11</hour>
</skipHours>
<skipDays>
<day>Sunday</day>
</skipDays>
<rating>(PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true comment "RSACi North America Server" for "http://www.rsac.org" on "1996.04.16T08:15-0500" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))</rating>
<item>
<title>stuff</title>
<link>http://bar</link>
<description>This is an article about some stuff</description>
</item>
<textinput>
<title>Search Now!</title>
<description>Enter your search terms</description>
<name>find</name>
<link>http://my.site.com/search.cgi</link>
</textinput>
</channel>
</rss>

Example 3 - International

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="EuC-JP"?>

<!DOCTYPE rss SYSTEM "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">

<channel>
<title> ... </title>
<link>http://www.mozilla.org</link>
<description> ... </description>
<language>ja</language> 

<item>
<title> ... </title>
<link>http://www.mozilla.org/status/</link>
<description>This is an item description...</description>
</item>

<item>
<title> ... </title>
<link>http://www.mozilla.org/status/</link>
<description>This is an item description...</description>
</item>

<item>
<title> ... </title>
<link>http://www.mozilla.org/status/</link>
<description>This is an item description...</description>
</item>
<item>
<title> ... </title>
<link>http://www.mozilla.org/status/</link>
<description>This is an item description...</description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

Supported languages

Why these?

These are the language codes that are accepted by Netcenter. Other language codes may be available as specified by the w3c, but these are guaranteed to work with most browsers. Netcenter will currently reject other language codes, however other sites may accept them.

Codes

af	Afrikaans
sq	Albanian
eu	Basque
be	Belarusian
bg	Bulgarian
ca	Catalan
zh-cn	Chinese (Simplified)
zh-tw	Chinese (Traditional)
hr	Croatian
cs	Czech
da	Danish
nl	Dutch
nl-be	Dutch (Belgium)
nl-nl	Dutch (Netherlands)
en	English
en-au	English (Australia)
en-bz	English (Belize)
en-ca	English (Canada)
en-ie	English (Ireland)
en-jm	English (Jamaica)
en-nz	English (New Zealand)
en-ph	English (Phillipines)
en-za	English (South Africa)
en-tt	English (Trinidad)
en-gb	English (United Kingdom)
en-us	English (United States)
en-zw	English (Zimbabwe)
fo	Faeroese
fi	Finnish
fr	French
fr-be	French (Belgium)
fr-ca	French (Canada)
fr-fr	French (France)
fr-lu	French (Luxembourg)
fr-mc	French (Monaco)
fr-ch	French (Switzerland)
gl	Galician
gd	Gaelic
de	German
de-at	German (Austria)
de-de	German (Germany)
de-li	German (Liechtenstein)
de-lu	German (Luxembourg)
de-ch	German (Switzerland)
el	Greek
hu	Hungarian
is	Icelandic
id	Indonesian
ga	Irish
it	Italian
it-it	Italian (Italy)
it-ch	Italian (Switzerland)
ja	Japanese
ko	Korean
mk	Macedonian
no	Norwegian
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
pt-br	Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-pt	Portuguese (Portugal)
ro	Romanian
ro-mo	Romanian (Moldova)
ro-ro	Romanian (Romania)
ru	Russian
ru-mo	Russian (Moldova)
ru-ru	Russian (Russia)
sr	Serbian
sk	Slovak
sl	Slovenian
es	Spanish
es-ar	Spanish (Argentina)
es-bo	Spanish (Bolivia)
es-cl	Spanish (Chile)
es-co	Spanish (Colombia)
es-cr	Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-do	Spanish (Dominican Republic)
es-ec	Spanish (Ecuador)
es-sv	Spanish (El Salvador)
es-gt	Spanish (Guatemala)
es-hn	Spanish (Honduras)
es-mx	Spanish (Mexico)
es-ni	Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-pa	Spanish (Panama)
es-py	Spanish (Paraguay)
es-pe	Spanish (Peru)
es-pr	Spanish (Puerto Rico)
es-es	Spanish (Spain)
es-uy	Spanish (Uruguay)
es-ve	Spanish (Venezuela)
sv	Swedish
sv-fi	Swedish (Finland)
sv-se	Swedish (Sweden)
tr	Turkish
uk	Ukranian

Supported encodings

Note: these are not case sensitive

IANA standard name	MIME preferred name (if different from IANA)
ANSI_X3.4-1968	US-ASCII
ISO_8859-1:1987	ISO-8859-1
ISO_8859-2:1987	ISO-8859-2
ISO_8859-5:1988	ISO-8859-5
ISO_8859-7:1987	ISO-8859-7
ISO_8859-9:1989	ISO-8859-9
Shift_JIS
Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese	EUC-JP
GB2312
EUC-KR
Big5
windows-1250
windows-1251
UTF-8
x-mac-roman

DTD

Location

Public ID: -//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN

System ID: http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd

The DTD itself

<!ELEMENT rss (channel)>
<!ATTLIST rss
version CDATA #REQUIRED> 
<!ELEMENT channel (title | description | link | language | item+ | rating? | image? | textinput? | copyright? | pubDate? | lastBuildDate? | docs? | managingEditor? | webMaster? | skipHours? | skipDays?)*>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT link (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT image (title | url | link | width? | height? | description?)*>
<!ELEMENT url (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT item (title | link | description)*>
<!ELEMENT textinput (title | description | name | link)*>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT rating (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT language (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT width (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT height (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT copyright (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT pubDate (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT lastBuildDate (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT docs (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT managingEditor (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT webMaster (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT hour (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT day (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT skipHours (hour+)>
<!ELEMENT skipDays (day+)>



<!ENTITY nbsp " "> 
<!ENTITY iexcl "¡"> 
<!ENTITY cent "¢"> 
<!ENTITY pound "£"> 
<!ENTITY curren "¤"> 
<!ENTITY yen "¥"> 
<!ENTITY brvbar "¦"> 
<!ENTITY sect "§"> 
<!ENTITY uml "¨"> 
<!ENTITY copy "©"> 
<!ENTITY ordf "ª"> 
<!ENTITY laquo "«"> 
<!ENTITY not "¬"> 
<!ENTITY shy ""> 
<!ENTITY reg "®"> 
<!ENTITY macr "¯"> 
<!ENTITY deg "°"> 
<!ENTITY plusmn "±"> 
<!ENTITY sup2 "²"> 
<!ENTITY sup3 "³"> 
<!ENTITY acute "´"> 
<!ENTITY micro "µ"> 
<!ENTITY para "¶"> 
<!ENTITY middot "·"> 
<!ENTITY cedil "¸"> 
<!ENTITY sup1 "¹"> 
<!ENTITY ordm "º"> 
<!ENTITY raquo "»"> 
<!ENTITY frac14 "¼"> 
<!ENTITY frac12 "½"> 
<!ENTITY frac34 "¾"> 
<!ENTITY iquest "¿"> 
<!ENTITY Agrave "À"> 
<!ENTITY Aacute "Á"> 
<!ENTITY Acirc "Â"> 
<!ENTITY Atilde "Ã"> 
<!ENTITY Auml "Ä"> 
<!ENTITY Aring "Å"> 
<!ENTITY AElig "Æ"> 
<!ENTITY Ccedil "Ç"> 
<!ENTITY Egrave "È"> 
<!ENTITY Eacute "É"> 
<!ENTITY Ecirc "Ê"> 
<!ENTITY Euml "Ë"> 
<!ENTITY Igrave "Ì"> 
<!ENTITY Iacute "Í"> 
<!ENTITY Icirc "Î"> 
<!ENTITY Iuml "Ï"> 
<!ENTITY ETH "Ð"> 
<!ENTITY Ntilde "Ñ"> 
<!ENTITY Ograve "Ò"> 
<!ENTITY Oacute "Ó"> 
<!ENTITY Ocirc "Ô"> 
<!ENTITY Otilde "Õ"> 
<!ENTITY Ouml "Ö"> 
<!ENTITY times "×"> 
<!ENTITY Oslash "Ø"> 
<!ENTITY Ugrave "Ù"> 
<!ENTITY Uacute "Ú"> 
<!ENTITY Ucirc "Û"> 
<!ENTITY Uuml "Ü"> 
<!ENTITY Yacute "Ý"> 
<!ENTITY THORN "Þ"> 
<!ENTITY szlig "ß"> 
<!ENTITY agrave "à"> 
<!ENTITY aacute "á"> 
<!ENTITY acirc "â"> 
<!ENTITY atilde "ã"> 
<!ENTITY auml "ä"> 
<!ENTITY aring "å"> 
<!ENTITY aelig "æ"> 
<!ENTITY ccedil "ç"> 
<!ENTITY egrave "è"> 
<!ENTITY eacute "é"> 
<!ENTITY ecirc "ê"> 
<!ENTITY euml "ë"> 
<!ENTITY igrave "ì"> 
<!ENTITY iacute "í"> 
<!ENTITY icirc "î"> 
<!ENTITY iuml "ï"> 
<!ENTITY eth "ð"> 
<!ENTITY ntilde "ñ"> 
<!ENTITY ograve "ò"> 
<!ENTITY oacute "ó"> 
<!ENTITY ocirc "ô"> 
<!ENTITY otilde "õ"> 
<!ENTITY ouml "ö"> 
<!ENTITY divide "÷"> 
<!ENTITY oslash "ø"> 
<!ENTITY ugrave "ù"> 
<!ENTITY uacute "ú"> 
<!ENTITY ucirc "û"> 
<!ENTITY uuml "ü"> 
<!ENTITY yacute "ý"> 
<!ENTITY thorn "þ"> 
<!ENTITY yuml "ÿ">

Proprietary Schema (Validation Rules)

Explanation

XML currently provides a limited amount of validation via DTD's. However, DTD's do not provide any support for common validation requirements, such as data types, length of strings, number of sub-elements, or pattern matching.

A standard has been proposed to solve this problem. XML Schemas looks like it will do all of this and more. Unfortunately, there are few, if any parsers available today that understand them.

As a proprietary, interim only solution, we have developed a very simplistic schema format that performs a second level of validation after the parser has read the XML document into memory. We are listing the schema used to validate RSS 0.91 files, so that there will be no ambiguity when validation fails.

Here are the basic rules:

Each XML element must be defined by an <Element> tag.
- Each Element definition must have a unique id attribute and a type attribute.
- Each Attribute of an Element must be referenced by an <Attrib> tag
- Each sub-Element of an Element of type container must be referenced by <Contains> tag.
- Each Element may have a type associated with it. Currently supported types are:
  - container: this Element contains other Elements only.
  - string: this Element contains text data.
  - int: this Element contains an integer.
- Each string or int Element may contain a matching rule, specified via <Matches>
- Each string or int Element may specify a minimum and maximum number of characters (or value if type int) via min, max, and exactly.
Each XML attribute must be defined by an <Attribute> tag.
- Each Attribute definition must have a unique id attribute and a type attribute.
- Each Attribute may be of type string or int.
- Each Attribute may contain a matching rule, specified via <Matches>
- Each Attribute may specify a minimum and maximum number of characters (or value if type int) via min, max, and exactly.
Each <Contains> and <Attrib> definition must contain a 'ref' attribute that refers to a uniquely defined Element or Attribute with the value of 'ref' as its id.
Each <Contains> and <Attrib> definition may contain min, max, or exactly attributes to define the number of Elements or Attributes required.
Each <Matches> must contain a valid regular expression, against which the corresponding Element or Attribute will be evaluated.

Schema

Here is the schema for RSS 0.91.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Schema PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD Schema 1.0//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/schema-1.0.dtd">
<Schema version="DKHXVF 1.0" root="rss" name="RSS 0.91">
<Element id="rss" type="container">
<Contains ref="channel" exactly="1"/>
<Attrib ref="version" exactly="1"/>
</Element>
<Attribute id="version" type="string">
<Matches>0.91</Matches>
</Attribute>
<Element id="channel" type="container">
<Contains ref="description" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="image" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="item" min="0" max="15"/>
<Contains ref="language" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="link" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="rating" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="textinput" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="title" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="copyright" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="pubDate" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="lastBuildDate" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="docs" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="managingEditor" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="webMaster" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="skipHours" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="skipDays" min="0" max="1"/>
</Element>
<Element id="copyright" type="string" max="100"/>
<Element id="pubDate" type="string" max="100"/>
<Element id="lastBuildDate" type="string" max="100"/>
<Element id="docs" type="string" max="500"/>
<Element id="managingEditor" type="string" max="100"/>
<Element id="webMaster" type="string" max="100"/>
<Element id="skipHours" type="container">
<Contains ref="hour" min="0" max="24"/>
</Element>
<Element id="skipDays" type="container">
<Contains ref="day" min="0" max="7"/>
</Element>
<Element id="hour" type="int" min="0" max="24"/>
<Element id="day" type="string" min="0" max="10"/>
<Element id="item" type="container">
<Contains ref="title" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="link" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="description" min="0" max="1"/>
</Element>
<Element id="image" type="container">
<Contains ref="title" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="link" min="0" max="1" />
<Contains ref="url" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="width" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="height" min="0" max="1"/>
<Contains ref="description" min="0" max="1"/>
</Element>
<Element id="textinput" type="container">
<Contains ref="title" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="link" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="description" exactly="1"/>
<Contains ref="name" exactly="1"/>
</Element>
<Element id="title" type="string" min="1" max="100"/>
<Element id="description" type="string" min="1" max="500"/>
<Element id="url" type="string" min="1" max="500">
<Matches>^(http://|^ftp://)</Matches>
</Element>
<Element id="link" type="string" min="1" max="500">
<Matches>^(http://|^ftp://)</Matches>
</Element>
<Element id="language" type="string" min="2" max="5">
<Matches>
^(af | # Afrikaans
sq | # Albanian
eu | # Basque
be | # Belarusian
bg | # Bulgarian
ca | # Catalan
zh-cn | # Chinese (Simplified)
zh-tw | # Chinese (Traditional)
hr | # Croatian
cs | # Czech
da | # Danish
nl | # Dutch
nl-be | # Dutch (Belgium)
nl-nl | # Dutch (Netherlands)
en | # English
en-au | # English (Australia)
en-bz | # English (Belize)
en-ca | # English (Canada)
en-ie | # English (Ireland)
en-jm | # English (Jamaica)
en-nz | # English (New Zealand)
en-ph | # English (Phillipines)
en-za | # English (South Africa)
en-tt | # English (Trinidad)
en-gb | # English (United Kingdom)
en-us | # English (United States)
en-zw | # English (Zimbabwe)
fo | # Faeroese
fi | # Finnish
fr | # French
fr-be | # French (Belgium)
fr-ca | # French (Canada)
fr-fr | # French (France)
fr-lu | # French (Luxembourg)
fr-mc | # French (Monaco)
fr-ch | # French (Switzerland)
gl | # Galician
gd | # Gaelic
de | # German
de-at | # German (Austria)
de-de | # German (Germany)
de-li | # German (Liechtenstein)
de-lu | # German (Luxembourg)
de-ch | # German (Switzerland)
el | # Greek
hu | # Hungarian
is | # Icelandic
id | # Indonesian
ga | # Irish
it | # Italian
it-it | # Italian (Italy)
it-ch | # Italian (Switzerland)
ja | # Japanese
ko | # Korean
mk | # Macedonian
no | # Norwegian
pl | # Polish
pt | # Portuguese
pt-br | # Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-pt | # Portuguese (Portugal)
ro | # Romanian
ro-mo | # Romanian (Moldova)
ro-ro | # Romanian (Romania)
ru | # Russian
ru-mo | # Russian (Moldova)
ru-ru | # Russian (Russia)
sr | # Serbian
sk | # Slovak
sl | # Slovenian
es | # Spanish
es-ar | # Spanish (Argentina)
es-bo | # Spanish (Bolivia)
es-cl | # Spanish (Chile)
es-co | # Spanish (Colombia)
es-cr | # Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-do | # Spanish (Dominican Republic)
es-ec | # Spanish (Ecuador)
es-sv | # Spanish (El Salvador)
es-gt | # Spanish (Guatemala)
es-hn | # Spanish (Honduras)
es-mx | # Spanish (Mexico)
es-ni | # Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-pa | # Spanish (Panama)
es-py | # Spanish (Paraguay)
es-pe | # Spanish (Peru)
es-pr | # Spanish (Puerto Rico)
es-es | # Spanish (Spain)
es-uy | # Spanish (Uruguay)
es-ve | # Spanish (Venezuela)
sv | # Swedish
sv-fi | # Swedish (Finland)
sv-se | # Swedish (Sweden)
tr | # Turkish
uk # Ukranian
)$
</Matches>
</Element>
<Element id="rating" type="string" min="20" max="500">
<Matches>^\(PICS-1.1</Matches>
</Element>
<Element id="width" type="int" min="1" max="144"/>
<Element id="height" type="int" min="1" max="400"/>
<Element id="name" type="string" min="1" max="20"/>
</Schema>

Schema DTD

Here is the DTD for the schema format.

<!ELEMENT Schema (Element | Attribute)*>
<!ATTLIST Schema
version CDATA #FIXED "DKHXVF 1.0"
root CDATA #REQUIRED
name CDATA #REQUIRED>

<!ELEMENT Element ((Contains | Attrib)* | Matches?)>
<!ATTLIST Element
id CDATA #REQUIRED
type (int | float | container | string | timestamp) #REQUIRED
min CDATA #IMPLIED
max CDATA #IMPLIED
exactly CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Contains EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST Contains
ref CDATA #REQUIRED
min CDATA #IMPLIED
max CDATA #IMPLIED
exactly CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Attrib EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST Attrib
ref CDATA #REQUIRED
min CDATA #IMPLIED
max CDATA #IMPLIED
exactly CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Attribute (Matches?)>
<!ATTLIST Attribute
id CDATA #REQUIRED
type (int | float | string | timestamp) #REQUIRED
min CDATA #IMPLIED
max CDATA #IMPLIED
exactly CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT Matches (#PCDATA)>

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