#28 slashdot.xml is not proper XML

[Jon Anderson]

The root tag for the slashdot.xml feed is as follows:

<backslash
xmlns:backslash="http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd">

This implies the existence of a backslash: namespace,
which is
not used in the document. What is meant is either this:

<backslash xmlns="http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd">

which would specify the default namespace as being at
the given
URI, or more likely this:

<!DOCTYPE BackSlash SYSTEM
"http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd">
<backslash>....</backslash>

which would tell validating XML parsers to check the
document
against the given DTD. Or maybe both :-)

[Chris Nandor]

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I've never touched the XML file and don't really know
anything about it, or who uses it. I'd recommend not using
it at all, and using slashdot.rss. I'd not be entirely
opposed to removing this mostly useless file.

However, if CmdrTaco does want this fixed, I can try to
figure out what is intended (I am still not sure; CmdrTaco,
do you know, or do you know who would know?), and I wouldn't
want to break things for the few existing users of the file.

[Rob Malda]

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If someone who knows XML stuff submits a diff, that'd be swell.

[Jamie McCarthy]

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Given the unimportance in which we hold it and considering
the presence of the .rss file, I'm moving this to a feature
request.