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My morning routine includes catching up on a few feeds, including Ongoing and Intertwingly. After skimming Ruby’s followup to Tim Bray’s first post about Camping, I clicked the headline link in NetNewsWire only to arrive at a dead-end. The problem?

Curious as to how Sam Ruby, champion of the Atom publishing protocol and syndication format, could have such a jaggy feed, I checked the source and was met with a wad of SVG. I cross-checked the results in NewsFire and it generated an even more bizarre URL, beginning with applewebdata:// followed by a GUID.

Although neither NewsFire nor NetNewsWire claim SVG support at this time, I’m disappointed by the lack of robustness. One of the most interesting facets of Atom and RSS is how they take full advantage of XML by allowing you to mix in markup from another namespace.