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Joseph Walton: With the RSS Advisory Board recommending the Feed Validator, and highlighting that it’s an open source project (Python licence), here’s a simple starter for hacking on it, either to make fixes, or simply to use it for non-public feeds.

Cool!

• Any chance this could be checked into the docs directory someplace?
• On my todo list is to merge validtest.py with some of the other tests.  I’ve taken a stab at this a few times, but never quite finished it.
• the DOCSURL and CSSURL changes look safe enough to simply commit.  I just don’t understand the ‘fv-’ prefix in both strings.

Last June, I wrote about a some ambiguities in an Apple spec that were troubling me.  More troubling than the ambiguities was the lack of an ability to have a conversation.  So I decided to raise a flag.

The technique worked.  It took multiple iterations, but the point is that the spec got clarified, and the Feed Validator was updated to match.

Now it is time to do it again.  Hopefully it will work out just as well this time.

Meanwhile, results from other validators: scripting, kbcafe, w3c.  Note: only kbcafe is a completely independent implementation, the others are different snapshots of the same codebase.