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Did you know that there are some Google Blog Search RSS feeds that don’t validate?

It looks like Google’s having some internationalization issues! The specific errors in question are:

Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF-8″, but your server is reporting “ISO-8859-1″
line 4, column 315: description contains bad characters (18 occurrences)
line 6, column 75: title should not contain HTML (3 occurrences)
line 9, column 41: title contains bad characters (2 occurrences)

3 Responses to 'Google Blog Search & Invalid RSS XML'

1. Atom versus RSS « be seeing you. said:

   on January 11th, 2007 at 10:16 am

   […] Kui vaadata, millised väljad on kummalgi uudistevool kohustuslikud, siis Atom nõuab viimati muudetud (last-updated) aega. Igaüks otsustab ise, kas see tuleb kasuks või kahjuks. RSS otseselt artiklit kokkuvõtvat teksti ei nõua, kuid Atom’il on eraldi kokkuvõte (summary) ja sisu (content), mis on väga heaks tööriistaks näiteks sel juhul, kui postituse sisuks on mõni video Youtube’st. Lisaks ei suuda RSS eristada, kas feed‘is asuva teksti näol on tegemist tavalise tekstiga, HTML’iga või XML’ga. Sellest ka mõned segased veateated vahest. […]

2. Poster said:

   on March 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm

   Spammers suck a lot

3. Bellame said:

   on March 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

   I hate spammers! (

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