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Originally Posted by hacker
It is exactly this ignorance of the standards, which causes most of the work we have to do to bring content back into compliance, so it can be parsed by proper tools. It is exactly this ignorance of the standards which cause all of the browser hacks, quirks-mode, and other things that complicate web development.
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Before I switched to FeedDemon, I was using another Windows tool called
NewzCrawler. One of its biggest pains (from a consumer's perspective!) was its strict adherence to xml standards. If you follow a lot of news feeds, you'll know how many feeds are not validating (around 1/4th of the feeds I used to read didn't work with NewzCrawler). So where does that leave me as a consumer? Just because some lazy webmasters don't follow the rules, am I the one to suffer?
I think it is wishful thinking to assume that all feeds are going to be valid XML one day.