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> In both cases you need an xml parser.

If only that were true! XHTML is basically dead and HTML5 is the murderer. Something that leaves RSS/Atom intact.

> Atom is very easily desynchronized with the main content, whereas hentry is in sync by construction.

I know, and no need for XSLT magic to fix browsers having made RSS/Atom persona non grata. Still, "deprecating" RSS/Atom is completely wild, people should be happy to find blogs with usable feeds in the first place.



>XHTML is basically dead and HTML5 is the murderer

Tell me more.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/introduction.html#html-vs-x...

Doesn't firefox ship a built-in translator between plainHTML and xHTML?




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