dynamic xhtml with xquery

[Andrew Welch]

> 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.

[way off topic]

Yeah Atom seems wonderful in comparison... why? Because it's stricter
and more predictable.  Which makes me wonder about the success of RSS
- is it because its so lax?  There must be the same tricks and hacks
being applied in feed readers all over the place, because each one has
match the lowest common denominator - "google handles that feed, so
your app has to process it too"...  It's like browsers handling broken
html in the past.  The effort is moved from the content creator to the
content processor.... and that means complex content processors and
highly likely non-portable content.

The lesson from HTML and RSS should be that markup needs to be strict,
validated.  It should fail early at "compile time" (the authoring
stage, validation as you type) not at run time.  That probably
prevents early adoption, but its where lax languages seem to head
after a few iterations.





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