Bug #80027 for XML-RSSLite: [ ] in text

This may *not* be a bug. I used in perl: use XML::RSSLite; http://feeds.feedburner.com/lohudblogs/polhudson?format=xml (attached) has: --------------- <content:encoded><![CDATA[Moody&#8217;s Investment Services maintained Westchester County&#8217;s Aaa bond rating, but gave the state&#8217;s third largest county a negative outlook, saying it reflects the county&#8217;s structural imbalance &#8220;in prior years.&#8221; The rating was on the county&#8217;s $987.7 million of general obligation debt and upcoming bond sales. &#8220;The negative outlook reflects the county&#8217;s structural imbalance in prior [...]<br/> <br/> Click on the headline for the rest of this blog post ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lohudblogs/polhudson/~4/cI3-K40d3n4" height="1" width="1"/>]]> ----------------- and results in: Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/br|img|![ <-- HERE CDATA[Moody&#8217;s/ at /usr/share/perl5/XML/RSSLite.pm line 267. Is this bad rss - ie should they encode all square brackets? ... or is your code at fault? I think these square brackets only cause issues in CDATA[ sections which are always terminated by ']]'. My own code parses this RSS XML OK, but I thought I ought to go for a *proper* module! --------------------------------- From /usr/share/perl5/XML/RSSLite.pm $VERSION = 0.15; --------------------------------- tony@article64:~/n$ perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 57 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) --------------------------------- tony@article64:~/n$ uname -a Linux article64 3.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 05:17:36 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux --------------------------------- Tony Firshman -- tony@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG