Another great article by Mark Pilgrim. This time he brings up the problem with RSS producers -- many are not producing valid XML. So, his idea is to build parse-at-all-costs parser, essentially ignoring validation. AND, his solution is in Python...
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Here's a script by Mark Pilgrim that retrieves compressed RSS feeds. I think Mark may be one of the few who actually have compressed RSS feeds.
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