289923 - dailywireless.org - RDF errors in RSS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Brian Moura]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050408 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050408 Firefox/1.0+

The Daily Wireless.Org home page offers an RSS 1.0 feed which is apparently a
PHP formatted file (from the file extension name -
http://www.dailywireless.org/newsrss10.php)

When adding this RSS feed to RSS Readers - such as Sage - it works fine and
delivers the expected RSS feed headlines.  But adding it as a Firefox Live
Bookmark results in no headlines listed and the entry (Empty) in Firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit Daily Wireless.Org
2. Add RSS 1.0 feed from web site
3. Check Live Bookmark in Firefox

Actual Results:  
Firefox correctly displays green file folder, indicating the link is an RSS
feed. However, it also shows (Empty) as the feed contents vs. the actual feed
contents.

Expected Results:  
List the actual feed contents.  Compare adding this feed in the Sage RSS reader
for Firefox to see the desired results.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The PHP-ness doesn't matter to us, but unlike virtually all other RSS readers,
we actually use the RDF in RSS 1.0, so we see people's errors there. In the
/channel/items/rdf:Seq/ they are using URLs that start
http://dailywireless.org/modules.php while the individual /item[rdf:about] URLs
start http://dailywireless.org//modules.php with a double-slash. As far as RDF
is concerned, the channel claims it consists of ten items that don't actually
exist in the file. 

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Left comment and link to bug on the site's feedback form.

Comment 3

[Don Park]

I've taken out the extra slash. firefox is happy with the RSS feed now. Thank
you very much!!

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Don, thanks for fixing it! Brian, thanks for reporting it! FIXED.