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> The only person I've seen endorse using heuristics to process ill-formed
> RSS feeds is Mark Pilgrim who also happens to be obne of the folks
> behind the ATOM format as well.

I was under the impression that many RSS readers happily displayed
badly-formed XML as character data without considering well-formedness (ok,
it is a pretty crude heuristic).

 My suggestion to people like him is
> that they should go find other formats to screw up  leave XML alone for
> those of us who want the interoperability gained by a strict definition
> of what is meant by being an XML document.

Absolutely.

Cheers,
Danny.





 

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