
Hello, I'm using the package 'feed' to parse news feeds and I noticed it fails to parse the item links of many feeds! I investigated and apparently here is why. Many Atom feeds in practice seem to publish their item links like this: <link href="http://....."/> But in the 'feed' package, a link is taken to be an item link only if its relation is alternate, i.e. add an attribute rel="alternate". So for these feeds it returns 'Nothing' for 'getItemLink'. A quick workaround is to go over the links manually of course, which solves the issue locally, but I think it should be solved more generally. Is the problem in 'feed' which recognizes links incorrectly, or do those Atom feeds simply use the wrong way to publish item links? Are they required to use "alternate"? I looked at the examples at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287 and I just checked Octopress (Ruby) and Ikiwiki (Perl) generated feeds. The RFC's examples have item links without "alernate" (as the only item link provided) and both generators I mentioned create feed item links without "alternate". Should 'feed' be fixed to recognize them? From the RFC: atom:link elements MAY have a "rel" attribute that indicates the link relation type. If the "rel" attribute is not present, the link element MUST be interpreted as if the link relation type is "alternate". --fr33
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