Namespace declaration

The namespace for Feed Access Control RSS and Atom is defined to be: http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0

For example:

    <rss version="2.0" xmlns:access="http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0">

Or in Atom:

    <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:access="http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0">

<access:restriction> element

Sub element of <rss> or <feed>. Used to indicate the re-distribution restrictions for a feed. The 'relationship' attribute is used to indicate whether a feed will 'allow' or 'deny' access.

To 'allow' access means a feed may be redistributed to other public sources, including search. To allow access, for example:

    <access:restriction relationship="allow" />

To 'deny' access means a feed should not be redistributed to other public sources, including search. To deny access, for example:

    <access:restriction relationship="deny" />

The default relationship is to allow access. However, if a feed is currently set to 'deny', the relationship must be explicitly set back to 'allow' for it to be registered (Simply ommiting it from the feed is not sufficient to turn access back on).

Examples

RSS Example

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:access="http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0">
  <access:restriction relationship="allow" />
  <channel>
    <title>Bloglines | News</title>
    <link>http://www.bloglines.com</link>
    <item>
      <title>Ping Away, Bloggers</title>
      <description>Hello World</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:03:11 PDT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#103</guid>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

Atom Example

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:access="http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0">
  <access:restriction relationship="allow" />
  <title>Bloglines | News</title> 
  <link href="http://www.bloglines.com"/>
  <updated>2006-04-28T19:03:11Z</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>Ping Away, Bloggers</title>
    <link href="http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#103"/>
    <id>http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#103</id>
    <updated>2006-04-28T19:03:11Z</updated>
    <summary>Hello World</summary>
  </entry>
</feed>