429034 - feed preview empty for planet.ubuntu.com RSS 2.0 feed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 350365

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: current version of RSS feed

The feed preview page is empty (displays no items) for the RSS 2.0 feed that planet.ubuntu.com provides <http://planet.ubuntu.com/rss20.xml>, the current version of which I am attaching to this bug.

It's not clear that this is a Mozilla bug, since the feed doesn't validate, and perhaps we intentionally don't try to work around such validation errors, but I thought it was worth filing the problem for evaluation.

Here are the errors according to the validator <http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplanet.ubuntu.com%2Frss20.xml>:

    * line 29, column 19: Undefined named entity: uuml (2 occurrences)
        <title>Sebastian K&uuml;gler: We broke Plasma.</title>
                             ^
    * line 211, column 64: Invalid character in a URI: ' ' (3 occurrences)
       	<guid>http://www.sourcecode.de/1002 at http://www.sourcecode.de</guid>
                                                                ^
    * line 703, column 66: guid must be a full URL, unless isPermaLink attribute
      is false
        <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25506113.post-7288151550667916393</guid>
                                                                  ^

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Even if it isn't a bug, we should display something more meaningful when this happens, like a message that says we couldn't preview the feed's items because of problems reading the feed.