Proposal - <podcast:txt> tag for freeform content

[daveajones]

After discussions with @tedhosmann about owner verification within feeds, the need for a tag that can hold free form content was brought up. The initial use case for this tag would be so hosting platforms can provide a way for their feed owners to input a random string into the feed that other platforms will then use to confirm they are the feed owner. The concept is based on the TXT record in DNS. To make it truly flexible, it can exist in the channel or in items and there can be more than one.

Txt

<podcast:txt>

Holds free form text up to 4000 characters in length. Any valid XML character can be used here.

Parent

  <channel> or <item>

Count

  Multiple

Node value

  This is a free form string from the podcast creator. Please do not exceed 4000 characters for the node value or it may be truncated by aggregators.

Attributes

• purpose (optional): A service specific string that will be used to denote what purpose this tag serves. This could be something like "example.com" if it's a third party hosting platform needing to insert this data, or something like "verification", "drop date" or any other free form bit of info that is useful to the end consumer that needs it. The free form nature of this tag requires that this attribute is also free formed. This value should not exceed 128 characters.

Examples

<podcast:txt>naj3eEZaWVVY9a38uhX8FekACyhtqP4JN</podcast:txt>

<podcast:txt purpose="Apple Podcasts">S6lpp-7ZCn8-dZfGc-OoyaG</podcast:txt>

<podcast:txt purpose="Drop Date">2022-10-26T04:45:30.742Z</podcast:txt>

[jamescridland]

I believe this is now in the namespace, and I'm therefore closing this thread.