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Invalid Feeds Joe's post a couple of days ago noted that quite a few of our Domino blogs are generating invalid RSS feeds. I noted this a while ago, myself. Joe's post spurred me to do a couple of things. First of all, I put some fixes into my Bloggregator code to work around some of the most common XML validation issues that I've been seeing. I'm working around the problems caused by Domino-generated nbsp entities and user-typed ampersands, so now I can read most of the blogs from our community, but still not all.
Secondly, I created a view within my externally-visible Bloggregator database that shows all the Domino blogger feeds in my subscription list that fail the default XML parse. I pull in feeds every couple of hours during the day, so it should be reasonably up to date most of the time. I'm not trying to shame anyone, really. Look at my feed, and you'll see that it's pretty bare-bones... nothing to be proud of. Just figured that since my code already knows which feeds validate and which don't (at least as far as the MS XML parser is concerned), it might as well make a list. You can check it twice to see if you're naughty or nice ;-)
-rich
Postscript: I forgot to mention that I've been working around the date format problems in feeds that Joe mentioned since the first day I wrote my aggregator code. Those problems aren't limited to Domino blogs by any means. Also, they don't cause the MS XML parser to fail because it doesn't validate the semantics of content, just whether the tag-stream is well-formed. Feeds with date problems aren't included in the view.
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