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The main issue I see with this philosophy is that you are pushing the responsibility for understanding the format upstream, similar to all the problems people used to have with malformed RSS feeds.

If you want to have a feed of some kind that is machine-readable then you need to have a spec that is unambiguous. Using JSON or XML helps. Having a clear understanding of what could be in each field, including currencies, timezones, etc, is required.




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