From xieyihui at gmail.com  Fri Oct 16 04:12:29 2009
From: xieyihui at gmail.com (Yihui Xie)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:12:29 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R RSS feed
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I guess this package might be of help:
http://www.omegahat.org/RTidyHTML/ (by the other Duncan :-)

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 15/10/2009 4:31 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>
>> I do not think the problem was caused by DTD. I checked the content of
>> the RSS feed and found there were several places containing characters
>> that were not converted to HTML entities (e.g. "&" should be "&amp;"),
>> or opening tags without corresponding closing tags (e.g. <LI> without
>> </LI>, a typical problem I found, at least in
>> http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/index.rss).
>
> Thanks, will fix those.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>



[Rd] R RSS feed
Yihui Xie