Re: Sticks, carrots, real XML, ultra-liberal parsing

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Either I'm missing the point or what you're saying
> is totally 
> incoherent.  The fact that you might have to fish
> through malformed 
> markup to find a <link> tag seems to me totally
> orthogonal to any 
> arguments pro or con requiring that Atom itself be
> XML or not. -Tim

I need to proofread more. It was incoherrent. The
actual text should read 

"The point is that if the very folks advocating ATOM
are also advocating parsing tag soup to discover 
feeds and encouraging people to support tag soup ATOM
feeds then why bother with the pretense that ATOM is
an XML technology?"

2 points - 
1.) Once I started using a tag soup parser in RSS
Bandit for RSS autodiscovery it was very tempting to
use the same parser to parse RSS feeds especially
since evry other week I hear some complaint about how
RSS Bandit should support malformed RSS feeds like
other aggregators do. 

2.) Mark Pilgrim is an advocate of parsing tag soup
ATOM feeds based on his most recent blog posting which
is counter to the spirit of XML and a detriment to XML
on the Web. He is also a major advocate of the ATOM
format. 

Hope that is more coherrent. 


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