Re: [syndication] Syndic8.com

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Any way to make it possible to check a submitted URI (for example, if
someone didn't want to list their feed yet)?

Cheers,


On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:57:37PM -0700, Jeff Barr wrote:
> Mark asks,
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, what's the engine you're using to find the XML
> > errors and highlight them? Is it homebrew, or open source?
> 
> I wrote my own RSS parser in PHP, using PHP's XML module. It uses the 
> Expat parser. If it returns an error message then I grab it and keep it,
> along with the line number.
> 
> The display is just a little bit of PHP. Again, nothing amazing.
> 
> Jeff;
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:34 PM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] Syndic8.com
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, SWEET! That's really cool. 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what's the engine you're using to find the XML
> errors and highlight them? Is it homebrew, or open source?
> 
> re: transient nature of feeds; yeah, that's one of the big challenges
> we face.
> 
> Cheers & thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:20:42PM -0700, Jeff Barr wrote:
> > Mark asks:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to break down the errors further?
> > 
> > There are no more detailed stats yet on the page. Here is a quick
> > breakdown.
> > The NULL parse_error represents a working feed.
> > 
> > mysql> select parse_error, count(*) from polldetail where 
> > mysql> summaryid=21 group by parse_error order by parse_error;
> > 
> >
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> > +
> > | parse_error                                                |
> count(*)
> > |
> >
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> > +
> > | NULL                                                       |
> 2513
> > |
> > | junk after document element                                |
> 2
> > |
> > | mismatched tag                                             |
> 46
> > |
> > | no element found                                           |
> 14
> > |
> > | not well-formed                                            |
> 148
> > |
> > | syntax error                                               |
> 61
> > |
> > | undefined entity                                           |
> 6
> > |
> > | xml processing instruction not at start of external entity |
> 2
> > |
> >
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> > +
> > 
> > The site retains the XML from each poll to each feed, as well as the
> > line number of the error. So here is a broken feed with a full
> > indication
> > of the problem:
> > 
> >
> http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=884&Section=xml&SummaryID=21
> > 
> > This solves what has been a very tough issue with syndicated
> headlines. 
> > Things change quickly enough that it can be hard to track down
> something
> > 
> > that is broken for a few hours or so. 
> > 
> > Jeff;
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net] 
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:43 AM
> > To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [syndication] Syndic8.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is great info.
> > 
> > Wow, a 10% error rate... not good. I have a feeling that almost all
> > of them are entity encoding errors in links, etc.; is there any way
> > to break down the errors further?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:
> > > Http://www.syndic8.com/polllist.php
> > > Current statistics
> > > 
> > > Feeds polled: 2792
> > > Live:         2458
> > > Dead:           61
> > > Parse errors:  279
> > > 
> > > These are all native RSS feeds.  
> > > 
> > > -- 
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> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
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