Re: [syndication] HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape "improved" my.netscape.com

[Dion Loy <dion@loy-fu.com>]

In related news, according to www.dpreview.com, all the "Add this site to
My.Netscape.com" buttons no longer work as well.

Friday, April 27, 2001, 9:06:46 AM, you wrote:

Jzc> I don't know about anybody else but my tool to parse RSS files and 
Jzc> display their contents ceased working completely yesterday when 
Jzc> Netscape rolled out their "new and improved" version of 
Jzc> my.netscape.com.

Jzc> As part of their rollout they seem to have removed the file:
Jzc> http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd

Jzc> A file which unfortunately they had told _everybody_ to put in the 
Jzc> DOCTYPE of their RSS file. So now my application always dies when it 
Jzc> is parsing the RSS files with this:

Jzc> Parsing error, line 2, uri http://www.gamedev.net/xml
Jzc>    External entity not 
Jzc> found: "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd";.

Jzc> I'm desparate for a fix so if anybody knows how I could tell JAXP to 
Jzc> ignore the DOCTYPE line or has a couple of lines of code that would 
Jzc> do the trick I would really appreciate it. But beyond that, what is 
Jzc> everybody supposed to do now to change their RSS files so they again 
Jzc> point to a DTD? And how many files will get updated and how many will 
Jzc> go on and on with a pointer to a file that apparently no longer 
Jzc> exists?

Jzc> John Munsch
Jzc> www.johnmunsch.com


Jzc> "Hey, after all, we're Netscape, if we're not going to use RSS 
Jzc> anymore then nobody else will either right?"

Jzc> "Heh heh. You are so right man, we are really the only ones who 
Jzc> matter."



 

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