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 Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject: One-Off Parse-at-All-Cost
Date: 2003-01-23 08:56:22
From: Don Park

[ this is a copy of my blog post at http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark ]


Mark Pilgrim raises the inevitable question about ill-formed RSS and how to deal with it. Mark offers parse-at-all-cost as a solution. I think this problem can be solved completely if:


1. RSS feed proxy services with 'tidy' (parse-at-all-cost) and occasional validaton service becomes common place allowing either the feed producer or the consumer to deal with ill-formed RSS.

2. Encourage development and use of RSS/XML writer libraries instead of writing out tags and contents directly.


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