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

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I've put out a call on Scripting News, if anyone can find a copy of the
Netscape DTD in a cache or whatever, please let us know, we'll host it on
UserLand, and recommend that others do so too. That we got into this kind of
jam is pretty amazing. What else don't we have backup copies of? Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dion Loy" <dion@loy-fu.com>
To: "JohnMunsch@zwave.com" <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] HELP! RSS broke like a twig when Netscape
"improved" my.netscape.com


> In related news, according to www.dpreview.com, all the "Add this site to
> My.Netscape.com" buttons no longer work as well.
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> Friday, April 27, 2001, 9:06:46 AM, you wrote:
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> 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.
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> Jzc> As part of their rollout they seem to have removed the file:
> Jzc> http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd
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> 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:
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> 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";.
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> 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?
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> Jzc> John Munsch
> Jzc> www.johnmunsch.com
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> Jzc> "Hey, after all, we're Netscape, if we're not going to use RSS
> Jzc> anymore then nobody else will either right?"
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> Jzc> "Heh heh. You are so right man, we are really the only ones who
> Jzc> matter."
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