http://simonwillison.net/2008-08-05T22:52:05+00:00Simon Willison2008-08-05T22:52:05+00:002008-08-05T22:52:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/5/weapon/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/08/05/placating"><p>My Universal Feed Parser was conceived as a weapon against what I considered the gravest error of XML: draconian error handling. Recently, someone asked me to implement a switch that makes it not fall back on lax parsing in the case of an XML wellformedness error. I said no, not because it would be difficult to implement, but because that defeats its entire reason for being.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/08/05/placating">Mark Pilgrim</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/draconian">draconian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/feeds">feeds</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-pilgrim">mark-pilgrim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/universalfeedparser">universalfeedparser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wellformedness">wellformedness</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a></p>