I've decided to move away from rss-parser. It can't handle the variety of real-world feeds and it's quite slow. Rather than keep patching around its limitations, I started building my own parser.

This is how Feedsmith came to be. It's designed from the ground up to handle the mess that real-world feeds are. It's also very extensible to allow me to add more custom namespaces in the future. It got a nice reception on Hacker News, too.

Now, a general note. The more I work on Feedstand, the more I realize that a feed reader is more like a stack of separate problems pretending to be one project: fetching, parsing, discovery, content cleanup.