Yes, this makes two blog posts today, and yes, I’m going to talk about XML again.<\/p>\n
I’ve suspected this for a while, but hadn’t looked into it. Thanks to Sam Ruby<\/a>, I see that someone has: Who knows an XML document from a hole in the ground?<\/a> shows that indeed, a lot<\/em> of RSS\/Atom parsers are not reading XML as XML… or at least, they’re not understanding the namespaces.<\/p>\n This wasn’t a problem when most feeds were bare-bones, and before Atom. Now, only a couple of years after I expected, all sorts of data and metada is starting to be put into feeds, with lots of different namespaces.<\/p>\n This is one of those things were if you’re a feed reader, and you don’t understand namespaces, you are broken, and need to be fixed. There’s no way around it, end of story.<\/p>\n That being said, I’m much more optimistic now than I was about those fixes actually happened. Phil Ringnalda’s Atom Yes, this makes two blog posts today, and yes, I’m going to talk about XML again. I’ve suspected this for a while, but hadn’t looked into it. Thanks to Sam Ruby, I see that someone has: Who knows an XML … Continue reading title<\/code> tests really did help and pushed a lot more readers into supporting it properly. Now let’s see some real XML parsing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"