dynamic xhtml with xquery

[Martin Probst]

> Certain feeds would fail with parse errors using my app, but work with
> Google Reader (and various others) so I wonder if they use XML tools
> to process the feeds... (I cant see them jump through the same hoops I
> did)
> Basically RSS annoyed me a lot - what's the point of using XML if you
> can't process it as XML.  It may be that people tasked with authoring
> the feeds struggled to generate well-formed XML

I think most people wrestling with XML use something like the
Universal Feed Parser (http://www.feedparser.org/). It is more or less
impossible to treat RSS as XML, as everybody on earth seems to get it
wrong in one way or another (escaping, encoding, media type, ...).

Also, the RSS specifications are notoriously ambiguous and generally
broken - this is the reason why people created the Atom standard,
which is much more sane.

Martin