Atom == RSS?
According to Dave’s new “RSS validator”, my Atom feed is valid RSS. Strange.
According to Dave’s new “RSS validator”, my Atom feed is valid RSS. Strange.
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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/06/26/dont_use_userlands_validator
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Mark\’s comments were about the *old* Userland validator. Regarding the new one, which validates Atom as RSS, Danny has picked up the story today.
http://dannyayers.com/archives/002248.html
Basically they just took the code from feedvalidator.org, stripped out all reference to the original, and called it their own.
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I know. And Mark\’s comments were prescient… You shouldn\’t use the old one, and you shouldn\’t use the new one. They\’re both wrong. Passing an RSS validator a bunch of XML that isn\’t even vaguely RSS should result in a long long list of errors. Instead I get a nice piece of candy that says \”RSS\” on it.