Thoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect.
This is a personal weblog by Jorgen Thelin, a Senior Program Manager for Windows Live Identity Services at Microsoft in Redmond.
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Greg Reinacker posted a response to my NewsGator posting problem on the NewsGator support forum.
So after some digging, it looks like the underlying source of the problem is that the Outlook editor is passing through HTML data which is not necessarily completely valid XML, and is definnitely not valid XHTML. It's an interesting question here, but I think the interface contract between NewsGator and the plugin is that it should really receive at least valid XML, rather than just any old HTML (say with unclosed <br> tags), and preferably proper XHTML. I exchanged some mails with Matt Berther who wrote the MT plugin, and we both agreed it was probably best for this "data cleanup" to be done in one single place rather than having to be repeated in every plugin.
As Greg says, it's going to take some time to build in code to clean up all possible data problems, but having a clear understanding of the problem and what's happening is always a good first step.
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