-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Earl Miles schrieb:
Larry Garfield wrote:
Disclaimer: I am not an RSS guru, just a pedant. :-)
RSS is XML. The XML spec explicitly says that invalid files should be discarded, not guessed at the way HTML is. Trying to make sense of a broken RSS feed is explicitly contrary to the spec. So, er, why are we spending so much time trying to sanitize? If it doesn't parse correctly, report an error "this site's RSS feed is f*ed up, tell 'em to fix it". Am I missing something here?
Because most people don't care if a site's XML is a little messed up. They care about the data; throwing away the data for trivial errors will upset the consumers of the data.
Then they should direct their complaints to the providers of said broken data. Drupal has had a rather good record wrt not validating somebody else's broken feeds. Did this change? Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeCvKfg6TFvELooQRAvGfAJoDZmi2uE3djMLipkvn5AXO9vnqIACdFV9G RKjNLilGDHTt+CK1QFiUbbM= =S7hj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----