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March 22, 2006

Stats on XML Errors in Feeds from Google

Filed under:Markup, Google — sps @ 1:35 pm

here are some interesting stats from google’s “reader” blog:

% of errors Error description
15.6%Input claims to be UTF-8 but contains invalid characters.
14.9%Opening and ending tags mismatch
13.9%An undefined entity is used (e.g.   in an XML document without importing the HTML set)
7.8%Documented expected to begin with a start tag, but no < was found
5.7%Disallowed control characters present
5.5%Extra content at the end of the document
4.2%Unterminated entity reference (missing semi-colon)
4.2%Unquoted attribute value
3.8%Premature end of data in tag (truncated feed)
3.3%Naked ampersand (should be represented as &amp;)
2.1%XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
1.8%Namespace prefix is used but not defined
0.75%Comment not terminated
0.64%Attribute without value
0.17%Unescaped < not allowed in attributes values
0.11%Malformed numerical entity reference
0.11%Unsupported/invalid encoding
0.10%Comment must not contain ‘–’
0.10%Attribute defined more than once
0.07%Char out of allowed range
0.03%Comment not terminated
0.02%Sequence ]]> not allowed in content
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March 7, 2006

Russian Thieves Break Into Missile Silo and Find it Filled With Money Bills

Filed under:Misc — sps @ 10:46 am

from mosnews.com:

A team of thieves that broke into an abandoned missile silo not far from the Russian city of Kostroma in search of nonferrous metals was shocked to find the shaft packed with Soviet money bills, Regnum news agency reported on Tuesday.

via digg read the story

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March 6, 2006

Glass plate - salt print

Filed under:photography — sps @ 9:56 am

this a note-to-self to find out more about this type of process…

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