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The other day, I was looking into using Picasa to create an image album and embed it as a slideshow on a website.

Uploading the images and creating the album was easy. However, I noticed that the code Google creates to embed the slideshow (a flash file) is not standards compliant - it uses the <embed> tag.

How can we convert this code to a standards compliant version?
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Last month, I wrote on article on creating an RSS feed for your site. Some people have reported problems with the process - but these all come from malformed XML, not the PHP code supplied in the article.

There are a few things you need to keep in mind while writing an XML document, or else the RSS reader will not be able to understand it. It’s better to think of writing XML as writing code than text, because there are some strict syntax rules you need to adhere to.
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