severity 420636 wishlist thanks On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:19:02PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Such a lax xml parser is not an xml parser. This bug is therefore a wishlist bug. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
