XML::RSS::Parser is a lightweight liberal parser of RSS feeds. This parser
is "liberal" in that it does not demand compliance of a specific RSS version
and will attempt to gracefully handle tags it does not expect or understand.
The parser's only requirements is that the file is well-formed XML and
remotely resembles RSS. Roughly speaking, well formed XML with a channel
element as a direct sibling or the root tag and item elements etc.
There are a number of advantages to using this module then just using
a standard parser-tree combination. There are a number of different RSS
formats in use today. In very subtle ways these formats are not entirely
compatible from one to another. XML::RSS::Parser makes a couple assumptions
to "normalize" the parse tree into a more consistent form. For instance,
it forces channel and item into a parent-child relationship.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Parser/
- Fixed bug in element method of Block object where map keys
were created when an undefined element was called.
- Better handling of ignored elements to avoid "noise" from
being included in the result. Added xhtml:body and
foaf:Person to the list for now.
PR: 60978
Submitted by: Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@dragon2.net>
