From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2004-03-12T23:27:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Lil problem with RSS::Parser

In <b1a350t4b2vg9abrqigh7dsnveme2s85jg@4ax.com>
  "Lil problem with RSS::Parser" on Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:19:37 +0900,
  gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:
> It seem that this feed
> http://www.siforge.org/articles/forum/index.cgi/show/t20021210__version__control/rss
> is valid for feedvalidator.org, but not valid for RSS::Parser.
> 
> The error is:
> RSS::NotAvailableValueError: value <1901-01-01> of tag <updateBase> is
> not avail
> able.

It's coused by (1) ruby can't handle 1901-01-01 time and (2)
my omission which was pointed out in [ruby-dev:23039].

(2) is caused by using Time.iso8601 for parsing
[W3CDTF]. It's fixed in svn trunk at www.cozmxing.org.
I do this in CVS at cvs.ruby-lang.org before very long.

> More, if I try to parse it with 
> RSS::Parser.parse(txt,false) I get an argument error

It's coused by (1). In svn trunk, parser ignores this case:
channel.sy_updateBase is nil.

> I'm sorry I did not post this to the RSS::Parser mailing list, but my
> emailo account is currently unavailable :(

It's OK also in ruby-talk. :)

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kou