So Tim Bray gets a little careless with with is programming, and
commits an uneven number of encodes() which screws up his RSS. Then he
blames RSS.
Huh?
<’s Pointy End. Dave Walker over at freeform goodness catches me with my XML pants, figuratively speaking, down. I wrote a piece about leaving the W3C TAG entitled (cleverly I thought) . Unfortunately that < in the title caused all sorts of grief and breakage, both here at ongoing
and downstream in the world of syndication and aggregation. I can fix
my own problems, but it’s deeper downstream; long term, the answer is
Atom. Herewith some thoughts on good programming practices and the
larger problem. [Update: A couple of notes on the “href problem.�]... [ongoing]
If you read the full article, you'll note that: a) he freely admits
that it was his own programming error that produced the problem in his
RSS; and b) he never actually explains how using Atom prevents you from
making a programming error like that. I'll be the first to admit that I
have no idea whether Atom really prevents that problem, however I'm
also not the one claiming that it does.
I'll also freely admit that I do have a Unicode problem in here somewhere...8-(
10:01:09 PM 
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