MSDN RSS Feeds

Can anyone tell me why the Microsoft has not gone by the stanard RSS feed and have included namespaces in the rss elements of the Rss Feeds.

I have looked up the spec on http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss and there is no reference to include namespaces in the Rss feed that is part of the rss element.

example of the MSDN Feed Address is for visual C#, Address is http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/rss.xml

Sample from this feed is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='rsspretty.xsl' version='1.0'?>
<rss xmlns:msdn="http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:msdndomain="http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/domains" version="2">
<channel>
    <title>MSDN: Visual C#</title>
    <link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/</link>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:00:18 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <generator>MSDN RSS Service 1.0.1741.24049</generator>
    <ttl>1440</ttl>
    etc .....

Just wondering why have all Rss feeds that I have come across don't have this except for Microsoft's feeds?

The only reason that I came up is to display through IE or Firefox ie. in a nice format.

I thought the whole idea of Rss Feeds is to get the raw data through xml and we can do what we want with the data either through our own apps etc.

Have I missed the point here somewhere ? or am I just living up to my name, Captain Oblivious!!!!!!

I would be interested in hearing from you guys out there if you have had any dramas or comments with your Rss feed readers?

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