Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		Benefits and harms are not evenly distributed
Date:		2003-01-22 21:24:36
From:		Mark Pilgrim
Response to: Agreed. So what's your solution?
re: "The temporary benefit of being able to read ill-formed RSS feeds is outweighed by the harm caused to XML and the Web" The problem is that the benefit is accrued by the software vendor, and is direct and immediate, but the harm is caused to everyone equally, and is long-term and abstract. Direct and immediate wins every time.

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