I noticed today that Mark Pilgrim linked to Eddie, my liberal RSS and Atom parsing library for Java, so I figured I should make a new release. It's been a few months since I did any serious work on the parser, but in the last few days I've reduced the number of test case failures to less than 100 out of 3502 test cases which come as part of Mark's Feedparser parser for python. The majority of the failures are in the date parsing routines and due to bugs in the Jython library which cause literal dictionaries not to match with classes inherited fro PyDictionary.

Improvements in this version include:

• Massively improved support for different character encodings. With Java 6, it also has support for UTF32 feeds.
• CDF Support.
• Optional support of TagSoup for sanitizing of HTML in entries.
• Improved support for different input sources including String, InputStream and byte[].
• Numerous bug fixes, with 97% of test cases passing, up from 90%

If you use Eddie, drop me an email. I'd like to thank Mark Pilgrim again for providing the community with a fantastic and comprehensive suite of test cases, extensive documentation and a first class Python library.