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Rob Sayre: Here’s how my last post ended up looking on Planet Intertwingly.

$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:29:17) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from feedparser import parse
>>> feed=parse('http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/feed/atom/')
>>> feed.entries[2].content[0].value
u'<p><a href="http://visitmix.com/Articles/Web-Standards-Where-the-ROI-is#200901200614472">Joshua Allen</a>: <i>&#8220;While proper use of web standards is about a lot more than validation, and we purposely stay away from the topic of validation in these articles, the page validates XHTML strict with 0 errors for me, using W3C validator. What are you using to validate?&#8221;</i></p>\n<p>The source for that page contains the string</p>\n<p><code>&lt;br></code>&lt;br></code></p>\n<p>I wonder what Joshua thinks that means.</p>'

Rob may have missed a name.