Wrong title parsing

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Christopher Armstrong
<radix at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The way the title is parsed is wrong. Instead of taking the title tag
>> of title you are taking any 'title' argument or tag, for example:
>>
>>        <media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/felipec-128.jpg"
>> medium="image">
>>                <media:title type="html">FelipeC</media:title>
>>        </media:content>
>>
>> You can see that in http://planet-im.com/.
>>
>> Anytime an image is included the title of the post is wrongly using
>> the title of the image.
>
> Hi Felipe. This is because Wordpress generates invalid XML; you may
> notice that the default XML namespace is not defined in that feed.
> Planet doesn't deal well with this, but apparently Venus knows how to
> work around it. Venus is a fork of Planet which is (perhaps) better
> maintained. I haven't actually tried it yet, so my planet still has
> this bug, but I plan to soon.
>
> Unfortunately, it has a web site that's about as crappy as Planet's ;-)
>
> http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/

Is that required?
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffelipec.wordpress.com%2Ffeed

Anyway, I took planet-im as a basis and using this code [1] I have the
same functionality that planetplanet is supposed to provide in 160
lines of code (including the template). Well only the html, but I
guess the rest is going to be equally easy.

[1] http://www.igvita.com/2007/03/22/agile-rss-aggregator-in-ruby/

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Felipe Contreras