Looking for standards among RSS feeds is like looking for standards in
Windows GUI designs: everyone knows they're published somewhere, but no
one takes the time to read 'em. ;)
I've been parsing a bunch of RSS files, and man, what a wild west of
weirdness it is.
For example, most of the RSS specs I've read suggest that all data is
plan text, with HTML allowable only when marked as CDATA.
But I've seen feeds that do that backwards, and some that have some
strings containing character entities flagged as CDATA with other
containing entities that aren't flagged -- in the same feed!
By what rule should I know when to translate data from character
entities back to plain old ASCII?
Browsers seem to handle the mish-mash rather well; wish I were as
graceful at handling all the inconsistencies I'm finding.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com
revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv
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