Re: [syndication] syndic8.com is now measuring feed quality of service

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

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Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> writes:

> That sounds great. Couple of thoughts;
> 
> * could you enumerate how many/which ones are well-formed XML?
> * could you store what content-type they're returned with (I'm
>   interested to see this; from some polling I've done, they're about
>   50/50 text/plain and text/xml)?
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Not only which ones were well-formed.. but how often the were well formed.

I have a lot of RSS channels which are output from some non XML aware tool such
a PERL and do not do any validation before saving the content to the webserver.

This means that every once and a while someone will enter invalid XHTML into the
<description> and it will fail to parse.

Keeping track of this would provide a GREAT level of metadata.

BTW... before you reply telling me that PERL does support XML... I know.  My
point was that it was possible to produce XML without validating it.

Kevin

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