dynamic xhtml with xquery

[bryan rasmussen]

> 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?

first to market (that wasn't from MS)

> 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.

I've been making an application that needs to do feedreading as part
of it's functionality. I'm seeing escaped markup in Atom as well, so I
guess this problem will not be handled by switch of format.
Anyway my solution - which is doable in my application because its
goal is to do presentation - is to do unescaping of the markup in the
browser side via javascript when the user selects as particular
subject. In fact I've gotten it going good enough that I've been able
to move all feeds from google reader to my app. Of course this doesn't
get around the fact that for some of the major XML languages out there
it is basically not doable to do any efficient processing of them via
the normal XML languages stack - don't look at the OPML!!

Cheers,
 Bryan Rasmussen