Okay, so I took another shot at scraping HTML with web services with another site that passes the HTML Tidy step. Luckily, this is a site that I already scrape using my own tool, so I have XPath expressions already cooked up to dig out info for RSS items. So, here are the vitals:
\n\n\nxslfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.decafbad.com%2Fjlist.xsl&
\nxmlfile=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.w3.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftidy%3F
\ndocAddr%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.jlist.com%252FUPDATES%252FPG%252F365%252F&
\n<p>Unfortunately, although it looks okay to me, this feed <a href=\"http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F06%2Fwebdata%2Fxslt%3Fxslfile%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.decafbad.com%252Fjlist.xsl%26xmlfile%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.w3.org%252Fcgi-bin%252Ftidy%253FdocAddr%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.jlist.com%25252FUPDATES%25252FPG%25252F365%25252F%26transform%3DSubmit\">doesn’t validate yet</a>, but I’m still poking around with it to get things straight. Feel free to help me out! :)</p>\nshortname=rss_scrape_urls2
\n", "body": "Okay, so I took another shot at scraping HTML with web services with another site that passes the HTML Tidy step. Luckily, this is a site that I already scrape using my own tool, so I have XPath expressions already cooked up to dig out info for RSS items. So, here are the vitals:
\r\n\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, although it looks okay to me, this feed doesn’t validate yet, but I’m still poking around with it to get things straight. Feel free to help me out! :)
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