Re: well-formedness error

[Danny Ayers <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Robertson wrote:

> Yes, and the simple problem is that on a hosted site it's easy for the 
> headers to not match what the feed has.


So we need to figure out strategies to minimise the occurrence of this. 
For the most part, the software that is generating the feed should look 
after it, either programmatically or by adding corrective .htaccess files.

> This is one of the (many) reasons that aggregator developers have to 
> be lenient with malformed content.


Aggregator developers don't have to be lenient, it's a choice. My own 
choice to date has leaned towards being lenient with RSS feeds (although 
I can't honestly remember the last time I encountered the 
wrong-mime-type problem), but I would prefer to be strict with Atom 
feeds. As an aggregator user I would prefer to use a tool with useful 
features rather than one that sacrificed them for cleaning up bad feeds.

Cheers,
Danny.

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