Accepting new namespaced elements

[Sam Ruby]

Phil Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have patched my version of Venus to work as a basic client for
> NewsGator and want to maintain the ng:xxx elements that appear in the
> Venus cache (and are available in the template etc.).
> 
> I have modified /venus/planet/reconstitute.py to do this - is this the
> correct way of adding more namespace support
> (http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/venus.svg suggests yes) or
> should I be using a filter/plugin?

reconstitute sounds like the right place.  Is this patch general enough 
that I should pull or apply it?

> As a side note, and possibly off-topic, does anyone know if
> feedparser.py is actively maintained? I appreciate that triage is
> time-consuming but some of the issues on
> http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/list are close to two years
> old. Some even have patches. I have had to customise my local install
> to work around http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=74
> (there is a patch for this issue in Python <2.5 in
> http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=40 and
> http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=68) but I am on
> Python 2.5.

I do have commit access to feedparser.

> Cheers,
> 
> Phil Wilson