Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		This Article is Quite Depressing
Date:		2003-01-22 17:45:45
From:		Dare Obasanjo
It is unfortunate to see XML.com running an article that endorses bringing the haphazard world of Tag Soup from HTML into the world of XML. The primary benefits of XML are its widespread, CONSISTENT usage which allows for the availability of several off-the-shelf tools and reduces vendor lockin. Encouraging consumers of XML to support ill-formed XML reduces the power of XML and induces fragmentation. If we arbitrarily pick bits and pieces of a standard to support then we cheapen the technology and reduce it to worthlessness. I'd hate to see XML on the 'web reduced to HTML during the browser wars with people simply checking if "it works well with Mark Pilgrim's program" or creating ill-formed markup simply to satisfy broken tools.

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• This Article is Quite Depressing
  2003-02-24 07:44:51 Frank Wilhoit

• Agreed. So what's your solution?
  2003-01-22 18:36:10 Mark Pilgrim
  • Agreed. So what's your solution?
    2003-01-30 09:00:19 Jon Wickström
  • Agreed. So what's your solution?
    2003-01-22 20:27:27 Dare Obasanjo
    • Benefits and harms are not evenly distributed
      2003-01-22 21:24:36 Mark Pilgrim
      • Benefits and harms are not evenly distributed
        2003-01-23 08:03:10 bryan rasmussen
        • Benefits and harms are not evenly distributed
          2003-01-23 11:40:03 Aaron Swartz
        • End-user perspective
          2003-01-23 08:37:02 Mark Pilgrim
          • End-user perspective
            2003-01-24 03:55:28 bryan rasmussen
          • Breaking Industry Standards A Competitive Advantage?
            2003-01-23 10:08:12 Dare Obasanjo
            • Robustness Principle
              2003-01-23 10:40:11 Mark Pilgrim
              • You Prove My Point
                2003-01-23 11:11:58 Dare Obasanjo
                • xml dev posts?
                  2003-01-24 03:35:19 bryan rasmussen
    • Agreed. So what's your solution?
      2003-01-22 20:47:33 Max Daymon
      • Agreed. So what's your solution?
        2004-03-04 09:56:00 Richard Prosser
      • Auto-reporting
        2003-01-22 21:07:36 Mark Pilgrim
        • Do both
          2003-01-22 22:42:19 Chris Adams