I have alerted several Webmasters to problems I've encountered, but problems aren't always fixed.

I wonder if you've considered a message on your page along the lines of "we would have liked to have been able to give you information from (name of website), but unfortunately their data feed that claims to be XML isn't and therefore it breaks well behaved parsers".

If we let people get away with producing bad XML, then we're heading down a path that leads to the same sort of nightmare that we currently have with HTML.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Parsing badly formed RSS or XML by davorg
in thread Parsing badly formed RSS or XML by tomhukins

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