At 8:01 PM -0800 1/13/04, Tim Bray wrote:
>This has evolved into a useful empirical experiment. Two of the
>leading aggregator authors (those of NetNewsWire and FeedDemon) have
>stated that for Atom, they will use a real XML parser and require
>well-formedness. Another, NewsGator, has announced that he will use
>a forgiving parser for Atom.
One wonders what would happen if a popular aggregator began
auto-e-mailing error messages to the webmaster of each malformed feed
it encountered.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
