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Due to some bad editing in the past some of our RSS feeds (specifically "recent comments", "comments on article", "comments on poll" and "comments on weblog") were broken.
Now I've updated them so they validate correctly.
If there were a simple RSS validating tool I could use from the command line I'd appreciate pointers to it... That way I could add a couple of tests to the site test suite to make sure I didn't break things in the future.
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Cheers.
I've added a simple test case to validate the XML, and will look at using feedparser shortly.
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You can use it online at http://feedvalidator.org or install it in your server:
http://feedvalidator.org/docs/howto/install_and_run.html
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Oooh that looks perfect, thanks very much!
I use their online service a lot and there are links to some of the results on this site, but I didn't realise they had a downloadable tool too.
After examining this a little it looks like I can use it - I've committed a stub validator test, and I've fixed a couple of minor bugs already.
The thing that always trips me up with feeds is the strictness of date & time formatting. Right now that breaks a few feeds - but I will get them all to pass by tomorrow.
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