Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		Agreed. So what's your solution?
Date:		2003-01-22 20:27:27
From:		Dare Obasanjo
Response to: Agreed. So what's your solution?
It depends on what you consider to be the problem. From my perspective, the problem is websites that provide non-standards compliant XML in their RSS feeds while from yours it is consuming this XML even if it does not comply with the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation. The solutions from my point of view would rely on pressuring sites and tools that produce invalid RSS feeds to correct them and creating tools like the RSS validator produced by yourself and Sam Ruby (which is an excellent contribution to the community). The temporary benefit of being able to read ill-formed RSS feeds is outweighed by the harm caused to XML and the Web by fostering the idea that it is OK to produce and consume XML that does not conform to W3C standards. XML has been successful thus far because of the fairly strict adherence to standards by vendors, producers and consumers of XML documents. It is unfortunate that your article is attempting to undermine this even though your intentions are good.

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