- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:34:28 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On 11 Feb 2009, at 16:08, Julian Reschke wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >>> As far as I can tell, the Atom feed format gets away with >>> draconian error handling (minus the RFC3023 thingy) quite well. >> I wouldn't say that is entirely true: Atom, as well as RFC3023 >> issues, hits the character decoding restriction, i.e., >>> It is a fatal error if an XML entity is determined (via default, >>> encoding declaration, or higher-level protocol) to be in a certain >>> encoding but contains byte sequences that are not legal in that >>> encoding. >> It is fairly common for feeds to contain invalid byte sequences. >> Also, > > Can you qualify "fairly common"? I can't quantify it, but I can say it's common enough that when I changed SimplePie to respect that phrase in the XML spec we received enough bug reports to convince me that it was needed. > My understanding is that those feeds will not work within > Microsoft's feed parsing framework, used in IE (please correct me if > I'm wrong here). That is correct: perhaps it shows that not enough people use it for those who create feeds to both being compatible with it. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/> <http://simplepie.org/>
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