Apart from the again taken up discussion I wanted to refer with my post rather to the subtle difference between the 1.0 and 1.1 version of the NET Frameworks: Programs (and concomitantly RssBandit) behave differently, depending upon installed Framework version. So I think, we should decide to get them working the same standard conformant way: need to set its Normalization property to true for .NET 1.0 [see Reading and Writing Wellformed XML]. But what really I hate is this (pseudo-)code: