I've just started serving some KML files, for example::

  <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/west-midland-bird-club.kml>

The Feed validator complains about the "description" elements:

  <http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.westmidlandbirdclub.com%2Fwest-midland-bird-club.kml>

        (aka <http://tinyurl.com/2rssmm> )

though they are recognised by Google Maps:

  <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.westmidlandbirdclub.com%2Fwest-midland-bird-club.kml&ie=UTF8&z=10&om=1>

        (aka <http://tinyurl.com/3y9dzl> )

and match Google's tutorial:

  <http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#descriptive_html>

Any ideas?

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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:37:01 +0100, Andy Mabbett
 wrote:

>and match Google's tutorial:
>  <http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#descriptive_html>

They don't.  Placemarks can have descriptions, Points can't.

KML isn't a bad format (note the subtle use of a striped property model
in the case of the element names), but that documentation is dreadful.
They could at least provide a real XML Schema.  WTF is "string" doing as
a description of an XML element's content model? That's a Winerism.

Still, Google web publishing is always a bit slapdash and half-built.
8-(


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In message , Andy Dingley
 writes

>On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:37:01 +0100, Andy Mabbett <usenet200309@pigsonth
>ewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>and match Google's tutorial:
>>  <http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#descriptive_html>
>
>They don't.  Placemarks can have descriptions, Points can't.

Doh! Many thanks.

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