I do not think the problem was caused by DTD. I checked the content of the RSS feed and found there were several places containing characters that were not converted to HTML entities (e.g. "&" should be "&"), or opening tags without corresponding closing tags (e.g. <LI> without </LI>, a typical problem I found, at least in http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/index.rss).
These problems will make the browsers choke but I also find Google Reader does not mind at all -- you can still read the RSS messages normally there. I'm not sure how other RSS readers deal with those non-standard HTML content. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 10/15/2009 2:46 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: >> >> I was trying to subscribe to an RSS feed from >> <http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html> but IE chokes on DTDs and >> Firefox also has trouble with this feed. (I'm not sure if it has trouble >> with DTDs in general.) >> I went to one of our web developers to see what I should use to read the >> feed, and he pointed out that the mix of RSS 2.00 and rss-0.91 looks >> like a mistake: >> >> <!-- name="generator" content="blosxom/2.0" --> >> <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 2.00//EN" >> "http://www.rssboard.org/rss-0.91.dtd"> >> >> and that DTDs are a little bit unusual in RSS feeds (but said it is not >> impossible). I'm a complete novice in this, just pointing it out in case >> it is a bug. > > I agree it's a bug, but I'm also a novice here (even though I set up the > feed!) > > If your web developer (or anyone else on this list) can suggest what the > header should look like, I'll fix it. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Paul >> >> ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel