Answer by Dave Winer for Any existing RSS feed url validators?
I would do this:Is it valid XML? If so, continue.Is the top-level element either rss or feed? If so, it's a feed. If not, it's not.That covers all versions of RSS except 1.0 and all versions of Atom....
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The W3C Feed Validation Service offers a SOAP interface. From the About page:Is there a Web Service with a public API for this service?Yes, there is a SOAP interface, accessible by using the query...
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Before I dive into writing a validator to check if a URL is actually pointing to an RSS feed, I did a bit of searching for some validators that may exist out there but had little luck with any reliable...
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