RSS Hygene
At the present time, neither scripting.com's nor aaronsw's RSS feeds are well formed XML 1.0.
Update: scripting.com's RSS feed is once again well formed. Thanks Dave!
Update: Aaron's RSS feed is once again well formed, but Aaron questions whether or not such encoding problems affect the validity of the document. Perhaps this will help settle the issue: I have tried such documents against the Python xml.sax, Xerces, and the msxml parsers, and each refuse to parse documents containing such errors.
The high-bit characters in my feed have been removed. However, I'm not sure that such encoding problems mean the feed is invalid XML since "XML processors must accept any character in the range specified for Char" (according to the sepc you linked).
Posted by Aaron Swartz at
Aaron's feed was having a problem a few days ago but both Xerces, Crimson, and Xerces-C don't have problems with it. Are you doing something strange with the content:encoded element?
hm...
Posted by Kevin burton at
The encoding error in Scripting News is fixed.
Posted by Dave Winer at