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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: rss, in all its guises
 Has anyone (else) written a stylesheet which processes the common rss feed formats? http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/xquery.html shows a query processing method, not very robust; There are two big problems with using XSL (or any other XML tool) to process RSS: 1. Many RSS feeds are malformed. To make matters worse many RSS tools do not follow the XML spec, and allow malformed RSS rather than dropping it on the floor. This encourages the promulgation of more malformed RSS. 2. RSS documents often contain escaped markup hidden inside CDATA sections. Both of these are severe violations of the letter and spirit of the XML spec. They make it effectively impossible to handle RSS with XML tools. For these reasons, I used RSS as an example of not to design an XML application in Effective XML. The next version of RSS *may* perhaps fix these problems. However, right now there seem to be a lot of developers who prefer to work with ugly, broken, non-XML than to make the minimal effort to generate well-formed XML that uses markup as markup and text as text. They are being penny-wise and pound-foolish. I am not optimistic about the future of RSS as a result. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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