Bug 259911

Summary:	packages.gentoo.org: Liferea 1.5 renders newlines incorrectly
Product:	Websites	Reporter:	Maxim Britov <maxbritov>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Gentoo Infrastructure <infra-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
URL:	https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2625335&group_id=87005&atid=581684
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Description Maxim Britov 2009-02-22 15:32:13 UTC

I have wrong rss looks in Liferea 1.5.x for feeds:
http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/amd64/testing/gentoo.rss
http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/x86

From Liferea bug tracker:
"I do not consider this a bug. The feed provides titles with newline
characters and Liferea renders them with newline characters.
Despite this the title encoding of this feed is really strange. Nobody
encodes titles in full fledged HTML and expects it to look good in
aggregators. I suggest asking the author to use non-HTML titles without any
newlines."

You can look it here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2625335&group_id=87005&atid=581684

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2009-02-22 21:55:53 UTC

The title block is explicitly declared as XHTML.
Part of it:
 11     <title xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="xhtml">
 12       <div>
 13         <span class="cpvstr">sys-apps/tuxonice-userui-0.7.3</span>: <span class="description">User Interface for TuxOnIce</span>
 14       </div>
 15     </title>
Newlines and whitespace in general in (X)HTML follows explicit rules, that DO include not rendering newlines.
If Liferea is rendering a newline instead of squelching it, then it's NOT following XHTML properly.