Re: Debian Project News RSS feed broken (and other imrovements)
On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
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> Al Nikolov (as well as others) have reported, that the RSS Feed of the Project News is broken: Links (and other HTML formats) are escaped like in the following example:
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>> <description>Four Debian Developers are nominated in the currently running election for the Debian Project Leader: &lt;a
>> href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/platforms/zack"&gt;Stefano &lt;q&gt;Zack&lt;/q&gt;
>> Zacchiroli&lt;/a&gt;, [..]
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> I looked at dwn-to-rdf.pl but couldn't gain much from there. It seems to me, that XML::RSS does the escaping. Looking at the documentation I found no option to tell it to stop doing so. And so I reached the end of my quite spare perl and RSS knowledge. Does anyone else has an idea what might go wrong here?
I can take a look at the code and maybe pass the question on to my colleagues on the debian-perl team to see if we can't fix that script.
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> Two other request regarding the rss freed have reached me so far:
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> 1.) The web pages at http://www.debian.org/News/project/2010/01/ and http://www.debian.org/News/project/ should have a '<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="dwn" title="Debian Project News as RSS feed">' (or something similar) in their <head>. Again I have no idea, how to do that.
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> 2.) Trackback support would also much appreciated (of that I'm not even sure if that can be done with our webpage...)
I think it should be possible.
Jeremiah
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