Bug #13531: RSS: a feed with empty channel description has completely empty '#to_xml' conversion

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: kou (Kouhei Sutou)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux
• Backport: 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: DONE, 2.4: DONE

[mala (stefano frabetti)]

With the rss standard library, a feed with empty channel description is correctly parsed, but its conversion to xml (#to_xml) results in an empty string.

(The expected result being a string representation of the full xml tree of the feed.)

A feed showing the problem (as of today) is at http://www.giornalettismo.com/feed/. It is valid, checked with the W3C validator.

[kou (Kouhei Sutou)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to kou (Kouhei Sutou)

Thanks for your report.
I'll consider how rss handles the case. I'll change rss to accept empty <description>. I must keep backward compatibility.

[kou (Kouhei Sutou)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r58552.

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rss: Accept empty text element as valid element

Parser has been accepted it but XML serializer wasn't accepted.

Reported by stefano frabetti. Thanks!!!

[ruby-core:80965] [Bug #13531]

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN to 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED to 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: DONE, 2.4: REQUIRED

ruby_2_3 r59236 merged revision(s) 58552.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: DONE, 2.4: REQUIRED to 2.2: WONTFIX, 2.3: DONE, 2.4: DONE

ruby_2_4 r59396 merged revision(s) 58552.