Article:		Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject:		Breaking Industry Standards A Competitive Advantage?
Date:		2003-01-23 10:08:12
From:		Dare Obasanjo
Response to: End-user perspective
I've heard your arguments before from other people and don't agree with them. Thankfully, those of us who work on core XML technologies at Microsoft don't have this attitude towards XML and related standards simply because we want to gain "competitive advantage". If we did many of the gains that XML brings to the our users due to its reusability and ability to foster interoperability would be lost. Your article highlights a mini tragedy of the commons. If XML applications that process RSS documents begin to lean towards processing ill-formed XML then when RSS files are reused such as many XML formats are wont to be (e.g. some mention using RSS for weblog archives, others have suggested using it as a general push technology) then this sloppiness and lack of standards adherence will creep into this avenues as well. All in all it's interesting to read a column called Dive Into XML on a website called XML.com which encourages poisoning the XML in the name of "competitive advantage".

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