Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Dave Winer has clarified an important part of the RSS 2.0 specification (via the audvidsyn list):

[…] Anyone who really read the spec would come to the conclusion that RSS allows zero or one enclosures per item, and no more. […] The spec refers to “the enclosure” in the singular. Regardless, some people persist in thinking that you may have more than one enclosure per item.

Following that I decided to abandon my plans of adding enclosures to my own feed for the simple reason that without multiple enclosures I can't make the feed represent the content of the blog entry. I often attach more than one photo to a blog entry, or I attach a stillshot from a video along with the video itself.

Limiting blog entries to just one enclosure sounds awfully backwards andvery limiting to how blog posts can be written. It's certainly not the kind of freedom bloggers are used to. I would take it so far as to claim that it's useless for blogging (but perhaps Winer only thinks that podcasters have use for enclosures).

I honestly don't get the problem with allowing multiple enclosures. Just allow more than one instance of the <enclosure>-element, and the problem is solved.