So what you're saying is, RSS is broken and until the entire world adopts the ATOM format or something similar, there is simply no point in trying to make any sense of any of the existing RSS feeds?

Strikes me that is the same argument that said "Only perl can parse Perl", and so nobody tried. Until one day along comes someone who'd either never heard that, or simply decided to go ahead and try anyway, with the result we have PPI.

I realise that there are still some things that PPI won't handle, so the original missive is correct, but from what I've seen, the occassions when it would fail are the same occasions when if the code was posted here, everyone would be throwing their arms up saying: For the sake of your own sanity and that of maintenance programmers everywhere, "Don't do that!".

For the vast majority of code created for anything other than deliberate obfu purposes, PPI seems to be able to a pretty fine job.

Given the way the things work--there are still sites out there generating pre-HTML 2.0 markup; adoption of new standards always takes a long time--, don't you think that there is some scope for doing the best you can with what is available now?

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In reply to Re^5: HTML from single, double and triple encoded entities in RSS documents by BrowserUk
in thread HTML from single, double and triple encoded entities in RSS documents by Anonymous Monk

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