In response to the mail by Pierre Habouzit dated 25 January 2005 at 14:10: | Le Mardi 25 Janvier 2005 13:20, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > Package: akregator | > Version: 1.0-beta8-2 | > Severity: important | > | > Salut Pierre, | > | > Thanks for looking akregator -- a great rss reader. Once in a while, | > and in particular on Debian Planet, someone puts a '&' into a story | > heading. Currently this can be seen on planet.debian.org in the story | > from Marga. | > | > Akregator then stops updating the feed. This is rather annoying. I | > discussed this with the authors of the planet code, and their take is | > that their Python toolset, in particular the rss part, is robust -- | > it is the readers that are at fault. | | they are wrong. | | I don't say that akregator should'nt be more robust to bad encoded | entities, but the spec for RSS is xml, and in xml you have to put | things like that : | | <tag>put an ampersand : &</tag> | | OR | | <tag><![CDATA[put an ampersand : &]]></tag> | | any other solution is NOT correct, so you can bug debianplanet too. or | the python module they use.
Can't resist CCing Scott here as I pestered him (unsuccessfully) about this before. | the bug is well known ([1] : funny, it is a debian planet problem | too), and is Qt's fault, since akregator uses the Qt xml API that has a | very strict (but also correct) parser. Well, is someone going to fix it? | anyway, the bug is certainly not important, at most normal, since it | only stop the fetch of the faulty feed, and not of the others. Don't disagree completely but reading Planet Debian is important to me, and I can't read it right now. As our lusers break the content, how about if both ends of the software strive to get better here? Dirk | | | [1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86535 | -- | ·O· Pierre Habouzit | ··O | OOO http://www.madism.org -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers
