Potential new feature: post dodginess.

Jeff Waugh jdub at perkypants.org
Mon Feb 6 11:24:27 EST 2006


<quote who="Mary Gardiner">

> I'm not sure the extent to which this could be solved in software, but
> some possibilities are:
>  - running entries through some kind of HTML corrector
>  - replacing entries that don't validate with a link to the entry and a
>    plain text excerpt
> 
> This is pretty low priority compared to, say, reducing planet resource
> usage, but it might be a good feature for the future.

... and in fact, you can have it immediately if you can install the python
mxtidy package (which doesn't seem to exist in Debian/Ubuntu). If you have
that, feedparser will automagically use it. I've heard some dodgy reports,
breakage and so on, but haven't been able to test it much myself.

:-)

- Jeff

-- 
FISL 7.0: Porto Alegre, Brazil        http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/
 
   "People who paid for bug fixes in the 3c501 driver also bought MacIIfx
                      support contracts..." - Alan Cox


More information about the devel mailing list