Valid XML

How to we encourage sites to care about valid XML?

I was just reading bloglines and thought it was a bit odd that one of the 
blogs had strange chinese glyphs in the middle of someones norwegian name, a 
bit of digging showed up that the source XML file at 
http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/buzz.xml wasn't even well-formed.

The problem is, that as a bloglines user, it was definately a lot more 
valuable for it to actually show me the RSS entry, even with the encoding 
failure, than stop processing the XML at the WF error as the spec mandates - 
if it had done that, I'd never have been able to see the interesting post at 
the webstandards site?

I really can't see how I can approach bloglines now and ask for them to 
follow the XML standards, does anyone have any arguments I could use?

Cheers,

Jim.

Received on Friday, 1 April 2005 01:37:03 UTC