Parsing OPML At All Cost
It occurred to me that if Planet is going to have Reading List and OPML™ import facilities, the implementation of these features really should aspire to the same level of quality and thoroughness as the other components, most notably, the Universal Feed Parser.
This means handing common problems and other confusion, including well-formedness, escaping, and encoding issues.
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Sam Ruby: Parsing OPML At All Cost Platform Wars: Web 2.0 By Paul Boutin Read/WriteWeb: 53,651 male, youngish, rich, powerful and geeky readers...Excerpt from The RSS Blog at
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Sam Ruby: Parsing OPML At All Cost
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