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  • In XML::RSS "permaLink" holds the guid URL if isPermaLink is true, and "guid" holds it if it is false.

    Sounds like bad API design to me. permaLink should always be the permalink, if there is one, and guid should always be the GUID, if there is one. How this is specified in the wire format is something the API should not expose.

    I don’t know if you’re at liberty to make such changes, though.

    (In fact, I boggle at the effort you’re putting into a module for RSS… Atom’s

    • > Sounds like bad API design to me. [....]

      Indeed. XML::RSS is mostly a big messy patchwork.

      > I don’t know if you’re at liberty to make such changes, though.

      The current focus is to slowly get the test coverage up and bugs fixed; when we have good coverage we can refactor the code and the API (while staying compatible with the old one). As you point out, there really isn't much need for innovations in an RSS module.

      I got sucked into looking after the module after finding a bug (like Shlomi) and back then finding nobody there to take my patch. :-)

        - ask
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      -- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();

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