GeoffRiley
commented
3 years ago The instructions do state that the task is looking at RSS tags and gives a few examples of the tags that are being the subject of the effort. Personally I do not feel that there is a confusion in the challenge because there is no point in the instructions that use the term tags in any way other than referring to the RSS tags.
The standard definition of an rss.xml file is widely available online, a simple web search will quickly reveal multiple sources, for example the RSS 2.0 Specification.
I think that it would be safe to expect someone taking this kind of challenge to chase down the specifications of whatever is being worked upon, and that even a cursory comparison of the examples with the actual provided feed sample would reveal that the RSS tags are held in the <category>…</category> xml constructs. The challenge is not framed in an html context, so what you understand a tag to be in that context is not really relevant.
Lastly, examples are provided of what similarity means, and even an example of something that should not be considered similar is shown.
Remember that these are supposed to be challenges, it would be too easy if everything was completely spelt out: half of the 'fun' is getting to grips with the meaning of the question.
bbelderbos
instructions for challenge 03 were a bit unclear to me. for example we are instructed to extract "tags" but the help solution says to extract something like
imatagfrom'<category>imatag</category>'. In an html context that's not what i understand a "tag" to be, and it's not clear that it needs to come specifically from the<category>tag. it's also not clear why i'm given two input files,tag.htmlandrss.xml. "Similarity" between words is also not clearly defined in the prompt.