#4 breaks on parsing feeds

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately the bundled magpie rss parser is so bad, that it breaks even on the example rss feeds you deliver -
Error retrieving feed http://linuxtoday.com/biglt.rss - MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (Invalid character at line 48, column 270)
Additionaly the failure of parsing the feed is not handled in the code, so it shows up in the rendered html.
I recommend at least to use a better parser - maybe simplepie can handle feeds better. The python feedparser.org shows how it is done right... maybe you should use this a s a backend?
Of course missing or broken rss feeds should be handled in the code, no matter which parser is used.