301271 - Live bookmark doesn't work due to unexpected xml parsing error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276434

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Onkar Shinde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

I have http://baavis.blogspot.com/atom.xml link added as a live bookmark. But
whenever I try to load it, it gives error 'Live bookmark feed failed to load'

I thought that it might a problem with xml so I tried to load the xml in browser.
It gives error:
-----------------------------
XML Parsing Error: prefix not bound to a namespace
Location: http://baavis.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Line Number 35, Column 1:<o:p/>
-----------------------------

Strange thing is that this xml renders perfectly in FF 1.0.4 and also loads
corresponding live bookmark properly.

The xml also renders properly in Mozilla 1.7.8

The problem was there in Deer Park Alpha 1 also and it is there in Deer Park
Alpha 2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a live bookamrk with link http://baavis.blogspot.com/atom.xml
2. Try to load (get the feed) the live bookmark

Actual Results:  
Live bookamrk failed to load.

Expected Results:  
It should show the list of posts on this blog.

Another blog RSS feed link giving same error -
http://enthymema.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Comment 1

[alexanderz]

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbaavis.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenthymema.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml

I suggest you contact blogspot and ask them to fix their feed generator. This is
not an issue in Firefox.

Comment 2

[Onkar Shinde]

(In reply to comment #1)

Considering that the validation results are correct (I don't have any knowledge
about it), howcome these feeds work in Firefox 1.0.4?

Comment 3

[alexanderz]

The XML parser was updated/upgraded between Firefox 1.0 and 1.0+ so what Firefox
thought was valid XML before, it now realizes is malformed.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The new parser introduced by bug 192139 causes this. This bug is pretty much bug
276434.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276434 ***

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, it's not at all bug 276434.  That's about _entities_, while this is
about a tagname.  There's a huge difference...

Not going to bother creating more bugspam to fix, but please don't dup bugs that
are about different things to each other in the future.