Magpie is absolutely non-validating, as long as the RSS feed is well formed, Magpie will cheerfully parse new, and never before seen tags in your RSS feeds. This makes it very simple support the varied versions of RSS simply, but forces the consumer of a RSS feed to be cognizant of how it is structured. Magpie parses a RSS feed into a simple object, with 4 fields: channel, items, image, and textinput.