HTML to Atom
Edward O’Connor: Hixie’s not the sort of guy to leave things underspecified, so HTML5 defines (in excruciating detail) how to convert an HTML document to Atom, even when the HTML document in question is, shall we say, less than ideal.
The root of the problem is that the atom spec specifies:
The content of an atom:id element MUST be created in a way that assures uniqueness
... and a willingness to violate that specification.
This has spawned a lengthy thread. In that thread, I requested (one, two, three times) that:
I suggest that you actually test out how common feed aggregators react when they are presented with the same feed differing only in the entry ids.
Given that I have seen no evidence that this request is going to be taken any time soon, and with the presumption that some of the people who are or were involved with, or even use, a tool that consumes of feeds may still be reading this weblog, at this time I would like to make a lazyweb request and ask if there are anybody out there who are willing to try the request I made above and post the results anywhere they like, and then leave a pointer to that information either in public_html or as a comment to this weblog entry.