Re: [xml] Problem with CDATA entities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:49:53PM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I apoligize Daniel. You are, of course, quite right.

  Don't worry I tend to goof magnificiently from time to time too :-)

> The clue is even there in the DTD file where it says SGML. It is also
> referenced in the HTML 4.01 specification as SGML.
>
> The XHTML specification also mentions it and provides the correct URL
> for an XML valid DTD:
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent
>
> I've asked O'Reilly to switch their feed to this.

  That should work way better :-)

> As you say, it probably shows that people are using cruddy tools to
> parse RSS which is a shame.

  yes that's the core of the problem. This DTD brokeness is just an example,
but the blame is on the generation side, the RSS generator don't garantee
well-formedness and people who want to process them are stuck, the right
thing is to get generators to be fixed as you did.

> I've written an RSS aggregator using libxml2 (and libxslt) from a
> mixture of shell and python. It works quite well saving issues like
> this.
>
> I'll release it as free software at some point.

  Okay, I think  Mark Pilgrim did one too http://diveintomark.org/
with Python and libxml2.

Daniel

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