--- In simplepie-support@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Parman <simplepie.support@...>
wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>
> > On 17 Mar 2008, at 20:36, focus2friends wrote:
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?
feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notcouture.com%2Fatom.php
> >
> > Contains whitespace before the XML prolog. Ill-formed XML. Feed bug.
>
> I hadn't updated the SimplePie.org demo with the new release yet.
> *whoops* This is still giving an error though. Feed bug.
>
>
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fajaxian
> >
> > Dunno why that's broken. Seems to work on trunk, though.
>
> Works for me in 1.1.1.
>
>
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?feed=http://nick.typepad.com/blog/
> >> index.rss
> >
> > Not served under a valid feed MIME type for what it is, though it
> > should get through as other feeds can be served as application/rdf
> > +xml. See bug #49. Hopefully (*nudge at Ryan*) get a release out
> > within 48 hours that fixes that (such I think the importance of that
> > specific bug is).
>
> Comments on the bug. It appears your most recent commit has
> application/rdf+xml in the "allow" list twice. Either way, it seems to
> work fine in the (updated) 1.1.1 demo.
>
>
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?feed=http://zeldman.com/rss/
> >
> > Same as Ajaxian.
>
> Works for me in 1.1.1.
>
>
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FFrank-
ly
> >
> > Ill-formed XML again.
>
> Safari 3 chokes while parsing. Firefox 2 passes it. Feed Validator
> throws up errors. It appears that PHP is dumping an error message in
> the feed after the closing </rss> tag causing the ill-formed XML. Have
> you tried contacting the feed author about this?
>
>
> >> http://simplepie.org/demo/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fallwomenstalk.com%2Ffeed%2F
> >
> > And again.
> >
> > All but the first ill-formed feed has never worked in SimplePie: the
> > first worked due to a hack to try and get it to work, but that caused
> > other (well-formed) stuff (like UTF-16LE) to break, and that was
> > changed in 1.1.
>
> Yeah, when push comes to shove, we have to support the well-formed
> over the ill-formed.
>
>
> --
> Ryan Parman
> <http://ryanparman.com>
>

I have a hard time dealing with these "il formed xml" excuses, when regular feed
readers
show these feeds flawlessly...