The solution remains elusive, as I try to decide on the best RSS parsing library. Short reviews of the top candidates:
* SimplePie: powerful but bloated. 277K (newly-released v1.0) is way too much code just to show headlines with popup descriptions. Atomization is where it’s at. This is globular.
* PEAR’s XML_RSS class. Decent, but the parsing routines are not forgiving enough of clueless bloggers and/or MSM organizations who incorrectly set up their RSS feeds.
* MagPieRSS: currently testing and leaning towards this one. Enough modularity to let me implement my own MySQL caching solution, reasonably forgiving of bloggers who insist on including curly quotes in their
nodes, reasonably compact, and reasonably fast. One tenth the size of the <a href="https://simplepie.inc">simplepie.inc</a> library. This is good.</p>
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