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Why not do both? If the XML validator fails, display an unobtrusive quality indicator like iCab (the smiling face in the throbber changes to a frown for malformed HTML), automatically send some sort of request to a tracking site and fall back to the error-prone all-costs parser.
The tracking site would be extremely valuable if it could track the buggy software instead of just individual sites. Feeding crawler with, say, the weblogs.com feed would probably give a pretty accurate indicator of the relatively quality of the RSS implementations. While the users may not care, the authors might be more motivated about getting unlisted from the hall of shame.
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