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

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Doesn't work for feeds, there's no way to feed back to the sender.  The
> right thing to do would be to display the error message to the
> aggregator's user: 'The feed at http://whatever (or if you've parsed it
> once before and know the title The Feed entitled "Tim's musings") is
> invalid and cannot be displayed.'  The pressure on the feed provider -
> assuming there were users and that they cared about the content - would
> be quick to arrive and severe. -Tim

We've had tremendous success contacting and pointing out errors to feed
providers.  When contacted they've consistently delivered the requested fixes.

It's wrong, plain and simple, to think "it doesn't work for feeds".

Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com