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Today I’ve stumbled upon one Croatian news portal, actually an “e-version” of TV produced news. I was positively surprised to see the little RSS icon in my Firefox light up, signalling that the site has set up a feed. Finally, I thought, someone involved in ever-so-popular (we have them like 5 or 6 nationwide, which is like 6 or 7 too much) news portals in Croatia has tried to catch up with The West.

Yeah, right. Closer inspection revealed this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-2"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:tagdnevnikhr="http://rss.dnevnik.hr/" >
<channel>
<title>dnevnik.hr</title>
<link>http://dnevnik.hr/</link>
<description>dnevnik.hr RSS feed</description>
<language>HR</language>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:22:31 +0200</pubDate>
<ttl>300</ttl>
<image>
<url>http://dnevnik.hr/furniture/images/dnevnikhr/backgrounds/hr_printlogo.gif</url>
<title>dnevnik.hr RSS</title>
<link>http://dnevnik.hr/</link>
</image>
</channel>
</rss>

Very informative. Maybe it’s an indication of the site’s overall worth…