On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:59:12AM +0300, fr33domlover wrote:

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://....."/>

Checking the code [1] it looks like it is indeed the case linkRel = Right `fmap` pAttr "rel" e [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/feed-0.3.10.1/docs/src/Text-Atom-Feed-Imp...

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?

Since you have done the homework and this is rfc compliant, have you tried sending an email to the maintainer [1]? It seems an uncontroversial change and they are active (last version released in 2015), I bet they are be willing to fix this. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/feed