1138088 - Invalid RSS with empty <title>

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Niels]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150222232811

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to add a RSS Feed with a empty <title> 


Actual results:

He claim that the rss feed is invalid and wont add it


Expected results:

Add the Feed with a Feed URL as Title or Unlock the Title field and let the User insert a Name.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

example URL?

Comment 2

[Niels]

The original URL is no longer available. I tell the problem the site admin and he fill the tag. 

Thats the copy of the feed.xml with the empty tag

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95325704/rsstest/index.xml

Comment 3

[alta88]

Inform the publisher to read the guide and follow the spec:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feeds-and-blogs

Comment 4

[Niels]

This is not a invalid Bug. The Feed is valid with a empty title tag but Thunderbird claim that is invalid and wont add it. 

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F95325704%2Frsstest%2Findex.xml

The Problem is in this case TB and not the Feed.

Comment 5

[alta88]

The RSS2.0 specification[1] states <title> is mandatory.  The validator is incorrect in this case.  The <title> is used to create unique ids to solve a prior bug for feeds lacking <guid> and using RSS2.0 spec.

Do not reopen this bug.

[1] http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification