Thanks for the report, and the suggested fixes. Doug, Ilan, Mark, or
anybody else on this thread, please do file a bug so that it'll make
its way into my team's queue, and we can get it fixed!
It seems that Safari's syndication works by taking a RSS/Atom/
whatever feed and using XQuery to convert it into a generic format
that is more palatable/sane for the software to parse. This is done
for the RFC822 date on this line:
let $date := replace($date, "[^,]+,\W*(\d+)\W*(\w+)\W*(\d+)\W*(\d
{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\W*(-|\+)(\d{1,2})(\d{2}$)", concat("$3-", $month,
"-$1T$4$50$6:$7"))
It would seem that the regex is trying to match one or more items
before the day of the month as opposed to matching zero or more
items before the day of the month (which would allow for dates that
didn't have the optional day-of-week to be accepted). If some
enterprising individual were to replace the above line in Feed.xq
with something like this (which is probably wrong in some minute
way and is admitted ugly)
let $date := replace($date, ".*?,?\W*(\d+)\W*(\w+)\W*(\d+)\W*(\d{2}:
\d{2}:\d{2})\W*(-|\+)(\d{1,2})(\d{2}$)", concat("$3-", $month, "-$1T
$4$50$6:$7"))
They might be able to get a temporary fix (or a permanent one if
Apple rolled it back into their code).
--Ilan
On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:33 PM, Douglas Maus wrote:
A request for clarification - is "day of week" optional in <pubDate>
(subtitle: Safari nonconforming?)
RSS 2.0 states that pubDate should follow RFC(2)822
as in:
[day ","] date month year hh:mm:ss timezone
I read this as: day of week is optional.
I have a feed that omits day of week in <pubDate>s
FeedValidator.org validates it as conforming.
Safari balks at the same <pubDate>s, ignoring them, and reporting the
date as when the feed was last accessed - typically "today at
10:25pm"
A minor quibble, but on the other hand, smarter minds than I have
pointed out that the day of week is redundant and, when
the day of week is incongruous with the date, as with the man with
two
watches, "is never quite sure of the time (date)".
Thanks for any advice.
(btw, bug reports via Safari several months ago have received no
reply)
