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Article:
 Parsing RSS At All Costs
Subject: Solution.RSS
Date: 2003-01-23 17:10:39
From: Dean Goodmanson

...and I thought the RDF/RSS tif's were rough!


So until the world agrees to purify their RSS feeds in XML, why can't the community acknowlege the feed as simpley RSS, not XML? Don't label it .XML, but .RSS :


http://www.diveintomark.org/xml/rss.xml


to..


http://www.diveintomark.org/xml/rss.rss


But then there's that whole silly


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>


issue...


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" compliance="Willy-Nilly" ?>


;-)


Consumer level applications should be able to return as much info as possible. (e.g. Browsers and RSS readers.) I applaud your article.


Industrial level applications should require strict adherence to standards. (e.g. Software compilers, b2b, ...)


..and where the lines cross: make it configurable!


Not sure how the above fits into that MS guy's argument, but it seems a bit apples and oranges to me.


Keep the sucrose a flowin...


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  • Solution.RSS
    2003-01-23 17:16:45 Dean Goodmanson [Reply]

    Consumer, Industry
    Human, Machine


    Hmm... http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/15/creative.html




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