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title: "Ultra-liberal feed parser"
date: 2003-07-11T10:14:15-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/07/11/ultra-liberal-feed-parser/
author: Les Orchard
---

# Ultra-liberal feed parser

<blockquote cite="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/">
This is an ultra-liberal feed parser, suitable for reading <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> and
Pie feeds as produced by weblogs, news sites, wikis, and many other
types of sites.
</blockquote>
<div class="credit" align="right"><small>Source:<cite><a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/">Dive Into Mark: Feed Parser</a></cite></small></div>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.decafbad.com/blog/geek/syndications_formats.html" target="_top">As I guessed</a> and
<a href="http://www.decafbad.com/comments/geek/syndications_formats/#comment-aoegfagobioobcb" target="_top">as Mark replied</a>,
his <a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/" target="_top">ultra-liberal feed parser</a> now
supports initial Pie (nee nEcho (nee Echo (nee Pie))) feeds.
<br /><br />
But you know what else?  <b><i>He left in support for <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a>.</i></b>  My news
aggregator remains fully able to read all my feeds even after dropping in his
new code.  No breakage here.
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