Package: libxml-parser-perl Version: 2.34-4.2 Severity: normal XML::Parser is not robust enough to handle all the broken rss feeds out there. The most common breakage that it fails on is a feed that contains an invalid utf-8 sequence:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 86, column 165, byte 4698 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 I've attached a copy of this feed. The approach taken in other languages XML parsers, such as python's feedparser, is to attempt to be as robust as possible, to be forgiving in what is accepted. They also set a bozo bit if a feed is not well-formed, so that tools that care can detect this. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libxml-parser-perl depends on: ii libc6 2.5-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii liburi-perl 1.35-2 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base [perlapi-5.8.8] 5.8.8-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis libxml-parser-perl recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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