Parsing XML follies
I got an interesting bug report today for BottomFeeder. It turns out that this feed from Dive into Mark wouldn't parse. I took a look - and he has a version tag of PI!!!! Ok, that's odd. Maybe it's related to this post, as kind of a perverse test to see how many aggregators pass. The 2.7 released failed this test, but a quick patch - which should auto-load on startup - fixes that. I find this kind of thing anti-social. It's one thing to have a bad feed because of a tool problem (bug) or bad HTML (human error). But to have an actively bad feed? Seems a bit over the top to me...
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[Gordon Weakliem] February 10, 2003 17:19:48.852
I think Mark's feed has been like that for a while, predating "Parse at All Costs". IIRC, it was a response to the whole RSS 2.0 rollout.
PI version number
[David Buck] February 10, 2003 20:19:33.672
I hope you mean "approximately PI" and not "exactly PI". This would be a huge download and not worth the time. :-)