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1 [this validator](https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fanarc.at%2Ftag%2Fdrupal-planet%2Findex.rss) says that my RSS feed doesn't validate.
3 the link to "comments" should be a full URL and there's a "self" tag missing.
5 coming from [this bug report](https://www.drupal.org/node/1843576)
7 -- [[anarcat]]
9 > [[Fixed|done]]. Now people are going to complain that the RSS feed
10 > hard-codes `http:` or `https:` instead, but we can't win there,
11 > because RSS.
12 >
13 > If you just want to serve a feed with less bureaucracy, I suggest
14 > using Atom feeds - they have sane semantics for relative URL references,
15 > and a specification that actually specifies, instead of
16 > [a family of vague, mutually incompatible specifications](https://web.archive.org/web/20110726001954/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss).
17 > In particular,
18 > [my Atom feed validates](https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsmcv.pseudorandom.co.uk%2Findex.atom)
19 > (rel="comments" seems to be missing from the IANA registry,
20 > but that isn't a validity error).
21 > --[[smcv]]