From: eduard <fishkei@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T02:22:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Feed parser and relative URL references

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Thanks Jon,

I validated the feed with feedvalidator.org before posting the message and
it  said:

"This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users."  Obviously, I
am one of those users.

I'll write email to engadget and tell them about the problem.

Thanks for your help,
eduard


On 12/30/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/30/05, eduard <fishkei@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using Ruby-Feedparser and it works great, but when I try to parse =
a
> > feed in which description contains relative URL references, I get an
> error:
> >
> > (REXML::ParseException) "#<REXML::ParseException: Declarations can only
> > occur in the doctype declaration.\nLine: \nPosition: \nLast 80
> unconsumed
> > characters:\n<![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href=3D\"
> > http://engadget.com/category/cellphones/\<
> http://engadget.com/category/cellphones/%5C>"
> > rel=3D\">\n/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:325:
> >
> > Is there a workaround?
>
> That feed doesn't validate at http://www.feedvalidator.org/ but for
> different reasons than your are experiencing.
>
> People need to validate feeds and complain to the authors. If feed
> validation gets out of control we will be back to the HTML mess.
>
> http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2005/12/xml-errors-in-feeds.html
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl@gmail.com
>
>

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