Re: [syndication] Syndic8.com

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Oh, SWEET! That's really cool. 

Just out of curiosity, what's the engine you're using to find the XML
errors and highlight them? Is it homebrew, or open source?

re: transient nature of feeds; yeah, that's one of the big challenges
we face.

Cheers & thanks,



On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:20:42PM -0700, Jeff Barr wrote:
> Mark asks:
> 
> > Is there any way to break down the errors further?
> 
> There are no more detailed stats yet on the page. Here is a quick
> breakdown.
> The NULL parse_error represents a working feed.
> 
> mysql> select parse_error, count(*) from polldetail where 
> mysql> summaryid=21 group by parse_error order by parse_error;
> 
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> +
> | parse_error                                                | count(*)
> |
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> +
> | NULL                                                       |     2513
> |
> | junk after document element                                |        2
> |
> | mismatched tag                                             |       46
> |
> | no element found                                           |       14
> |
> | not well-formed                                            |      148
> |
> | syntax error                                               |       61
> |
> | undefined entity                                           |        6
> |
> | xml processing instruction not at start of external entity |        2
> |
> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------
> +
> 
> The site retains the XML from each poll to each feed, as well as the
> line number of the error. So here is a broken feed with a full
> indication
> of the problem:
> 
> http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=884&Section=xml&SummaryID=21
> 
> This solves what has been a very tough issue with syndicated headlines. 
> Things change quickly enough that it can be hard to track down something
> 
> that is broken for a few hours or so. 
> 
> Jeff;
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:43 AM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] Syndic8.com
> 
> 
> 
> This is great info.
> 
> Wow, a 10% error rate... not good. I have a feeling that almost all
> of them are entity encoding errors in links, etc.; is there any way
> to break down the errors further?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:
> > Http://www.syndic8.com/polllist.php
> > Current statistics
> > 
> > Feeds polled: 2792
> > Live:         2458
> > Dead:           61
> > Parse errors:  279
> > 
> > These are all native RSS feeds.  
> > 
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