Re: well-formedness error

[Mark Pilgrim <pilgrim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:51:39 +0200, Danny Ayers <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark, of the feed-consumer applications which use your 'Universal'
> parser, what proportion provide some signal that a feed isn't valid XML?

I assume you mean "well-formed XML", but anyway, I have no idea.  As a
library developer, all I can do is provide a clear and unambiguous
signal when the feed is not well-formed.

http://feedparser.org/docs/bozo.html

This includes parsing the feed with the proper character encoding,
which includes respecting RFC 3023.

http://feedparser.org/docs/character-encoding.html

As you can see, if the bozo bit comes back 1, the feed is not
well-formed, and bozo_exception includes the reason.  If
bozo_exception is CharacterEncodingOverride, then the
non-wellformedness is a result of the feed failing to conform to RFC
3023.

What end-user applications do with that information is entirely up to
them.  I can't force *my* users (developers using my library to build
other applications) to be draconian, or tolerant.  All I can do is
give them accurate information.

-- 
Cheers,
-Mark