diff --git a/dump.js b/bin/dump.js
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 87%
rename from dump.js
rename to bin/dump.js
index bb35fd9..87abfdf
--- a/dump.js
+++ b/bin/dump.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
 /*
  * Parse a feed and dump the result to the console
  *
@@ -5,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  */
 var util = require('util')
-  , FeedParser = require('./')
+  , FeedParser = require('../')
   , parser = new FeedParser()
   , file = process.argv[2];
 
diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 71aa836..ba0ac60 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ function handleAttributes (attrs, el) {
       parser.in_xhtml = true;
       parser.xhtml = {'#name': el, '#': ''};
     }
-    simplifiedAttributes[prefix + attr.local] = attr.value.trim();
+    simplifiedAttributes[prefix + attr.local] = attr.value ? attr.value.trim() : '';
   });
   return simplifiedAttributes;
 }
@@ -586,10 +586,11 @@ function FeedParser (options) {
   var parser = this;
   parser._reset();
   parser.options = options || {};
+  if (!('strict' in parser.options)) parser.options.strict = false;
   if (!('normalize' in parser.options)) parser.options.normalize = true;
   if (!('addmeta' in parser.options)) parser.options.addmeta = true;
   if (parser.options.feedurl) parser.xmlbase.unshift({ '#name': 'xml', '#': parser.options.feedurl});
-  parser.stream = sax.createStream(false /* strict mode - no */, {lowercase: true, xmlns: true }); // https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js
+  parser.stream = sax.createStream(parser.options.strict /* strict mode - no by default */, {lowercase: true, xmlns: true }); // https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js
   parser.stream.on('error', function (e){ parser.handleSaxError(e, parser); });
   parser.stream.on('opentag', function (n){ parser.handleOpenTag(n, parser); });
   parser.stream.on('closetag', function (el){ parser.handleCloseTag(el, parser); });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 14953a8..48392c0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { "name" : "feedparser"
 , "author" : "Dan MacTough <danmactough@gmail.com>"
 , "description" : "Robust RSS Atom and RDF feed parsing using sax js"
-, "version": "0.10.0-beta"
+, "version": "0.10.1"
 , "keywords" : ["rss", "feed", "atom", "rdf", "xml", "syndication"]
 , "homepage" : "http://github.com/danmactough/node-feedparser"
 , "repository" :
@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@
 , "devDependencies":
   { "mocha" : "1.3.x"
   }
+, "scripts":
+  { "test" : "./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha --reporter list"
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test/notaFeed.js b/test/notaFeed.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7336e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/notaFeed.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+var assert = require('assert')
+  , FeedParser = require('../')
+  , feedparser = new FeedParser()
+  ;
+
+describe('feedparser', function(){
+  describe('#parseUrl', function(){
+    it('should not throw', function(done) {
+      this.timeout(10000);
+      feedparser.parseUrl('http://lifehacker.com', function (error, meta, articles) {
+        assert.ifError(error);
+        assert.equal(articles.length, 0);
+        done();
+      });
+    });
+  });
+});