dc:description in RSS 1.0 channels

[Sam Ruby]

Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Venus doesn't seem to support RSS 1.0 items which description uses
> dc:description instead of rss10:description.
> 
> Why would one want to use dc:description instead of rss10:description?
> 
> That was a loooong time ago, but as far as I remember, there had been
> some discussions about that when we were working on RSS 1.0. The idea
> was that Dublin Core could be considered as more generic than RSS and
> that dc:description could be considered as more broadly understood than
> rss10:description. OTH, we had also been sensible to the fact that
> authors might want to keep the number of namespaces as low as possible
> in their channels and we've deliberately allowed both.
> 
> A lot of RSS tools support both (they probably just ignore namespaces
> altogether!) and I am surprised to see that dc:description seem to be
> silently ignored by Venus.
> 
> Is that a feature?

Have a test case?  The FeedParser documentation suggests that 
dc:description is supported:

http://feedparser.org/docs/reference-feed-subtitle.html
http://feedparser.org/docs/reference-entry-summary.html

- Sam Ruby