[Playlist] Defects in XSPF files out in the wild

Lucas Gonze lgonze at panix.com
Sun Sep 23 21:27:41 UTC 2007


People will put keywords into a rel attribute instead of a URI, as if it 
were the same as in HTML.

Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> I was thinking about repairing mechanisms for
> defects found in XSPF files out in the wild.
> 
> What defects did we find? What I currently
> remember:
> 
>  * XML errors (like unencoded ampersands)
>  * <artist> instead of <creator>
>  * Filenames instead of URIs in <location>
>  * Wrong namespace URI
>  * Non-XSPF elements outside of <extension> tags
>  * Missing attributes like "rel" for <link>
> 
> Anything else?
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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