On 9/20/2012 11:16 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Wordit <wordituk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone happen to have a show/list function that outputs an RSS/Atom feed?
>> I couldn't find any in the archives so far. Just hoping somebody
>> already has a code snippet lying around.
> I don’t have an answer, but if you find or write one, please test it with the W3C Feed
Validator:
> http://validator.w3.org/appc/
>
> In a past life I wrote a news-reader client, and the number of invalid RSS feeds we found
in the wild was astounding. It made my job a lot more painful to have to deal with tag soup,
screwy date formats, broken metacharacter escaping, etc. etc.
If you feel like trying your hand at building/extending another
news-reader client, Dale Harvey's Settee would be a good place to start:
https://github.com/daleharvey/settee
>
> —Jens
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