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+<!--
+Description: entry title type='' -- no base64/unicodedecodeerror crash
+Expect:      entries[0]['title'] == 'evil'
+-->
+<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+<entry>
+  <title type="">evil</title>
+</entry>
+</feed>