Garrett Rooney wrote:
In my experiements with pulling titles out of atom feeds last night, I
inadvertently pointed my PrintTitles program at some atom 0.3 feeds.
The results were, well, explosive.
Now I'm not saying we should parse those feeds, we should really
restrict oursives to atom 1.0, but it might be nice if we at least
recognize them when we encounter them, so we can throw something more
informative than a ClassCastException (the usual result) or
NullPointerException (if you've got a ParseFilter set up).
+1.
As more a policy issue, do people think Abdera should attempt to
successfully parse content, even if they contain errors/violations of
the spec?
Someone somewhere out on the Internet will break the spec, produce
invalid XML, put invalid encodings in there, miss required fields, put
invalid data in those fields.. etc. While some of these problems will
require support from lower level components(Axiom), much of the handling
stiil is up to Abdera.
-Paul
