Julian Reschke wrote:
Karl Dubost wrote:
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# PRODUCING BROKEN XML
The fact is that many atom feeds are broken for many reasons.
* edited by hand
* created by templating tools which are not XML producers
* mixing content from different sources (html, db, xml) with different
encodings
It means when designing an atom feed consumer, implementers are forced
to recover the broken content to be able to make it usable by the
crowd (social impact). Second part of the postel laws "Be liberal in
what you accept".
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Are you *really* sure about that? My understanding is that there are
popular Atom consumers that require proper XML (except for the RFC3023
issue), and that falling back to handle broken XML is actually not
needed (opposed to RSS).
That *might* be the case for AtomPub, but my experience is that there
are a few feed consumers that require well formed XML (Microsoft's RSS
Platform and Dare's RSS Bandit come to mind), and those that do require
it both for all flavors of RSS and for Atom.
BR, Julian
- Sam Ruby
