262449 - Live bookmark fails to load RSS 0.9 feeds

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Live bookmarks 0.91 spec do not load.

Trying to hand edit the failing rss feed cross-comparing with a working one
(http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf) I found that the following are minimal
items in order for the live bookmark to load:

* The root rdf:RDF tag must have both of these items:
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"

* The channel item must have an <items> sequence, e.g.:
<items>
 <rdf:Seq>
  <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.postgresql.org/news/229.html" />
 </rdf:Seq>
</items>

* The <item>s must have rdf:about attrs matching the <items> sequence, e.g.:
<item rdf:about="http://www.postgresql.org/news/229.html"> ... </item>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a live bookmark to a version 0.91 RSS feed
2. Expand the bookmark


Actual Results:  
Live bookmark did not load RSS urls

Expected Results:  
Should have loaded the RSS feed based on the <link> tags in all the <item> tags
independent of the 1.0 xmlns and the <items> sequence.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

It doesn't validate

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fnews.rss

I tried a nr of rdf and xml feeds in this validator and they all succeeded

-> INVALID

Comment 2

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Neither does half the html on the internet, yet mozilla doesn't refuse to draw
those pages ...