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Id: 35706
Status: rejected
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Queue: XML-Feed
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Owner: simonw [...] cpan.org
Requestors: claco [...] cpan.org
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  Wed May 07 21:22:07 2008 claco [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: undef in Atom, '' in RSS
After calling parse on an Atom feed with no tagline/description, $feed->tagline/description return undef. After calling parse on an RSS feed with no tagline/description, $feed->tagline/description return ''. Some consistancy either way would be nice.
  Thu Oct 16 15:41:05 2008 simonw [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Thu Oct 23 21:42:51 2008 simonw [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Nov 04 17:30:10 2008 simonw [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
RT-Send-CC: SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org
This looks like it's an issue with XML::RSS - Shlomi may argue against this but IMO an empty tag such as <description></description> should return '' and a non existent one should return undef but, at the moment, they both return ''. The current behaviour looks like it's specifically baked into XML::RSS but I've only had a quick look so I could be wrong. Please feel free to reopen the ticket if I'm wrong though.
  Tue Nov 04 17:30:13 2008 simonw [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'