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The issue isn't whether they are bugs in the generator. The question is whether an aggregator should [for example] try each of the heuristics below to try to parse an XML document instead of giving Joe User an ugly error message because the Ziff Davis Microsoft-Watch or National Geographic RSS feed doesn't specify the correct encoding in the XML declaration. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM Entropy isn't what it used to be. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. >-----Original Message----- >From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@d...] >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:09 PM >To: Dare Obasanjo >Cc: xml-dev@l... >Subject: Re: Postel's law, exceptions > >> Exactly how does this solve the most common errors in RSS (and most >> likely ATOM) feeds? > >I love concrete data. As the original/main author of the >popular RSSBandit, I assume you're right about these being the >main problems. >Let me push back at each one in turn. > >> 1.) Unescaped ampersands in link elements > >Where do these happen? Is it the links that the RSS/Atom >generator creates? If so, then those are just bugs, man. I >don't have anything new to say. > >> 2.) documents with incorrect endoding in the XML declaration > >This is bogus content generated by the generator again, right? > >> 3.) Use of HTML entities in the document such as in the <title> > >This is in the content that RSS/ATom is syndicating? If so, >then carrying it as base64 doesn't break the XML purity of >Atom and it leaves the "you interpret the content" issue up to >the client (client's browser). Best of both possible worlds, no? > >Sorry for not getting it all. Could you post an example or two? > /r$ > >-- >Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect >DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com >XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html >XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html > > >
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