Security (and other?) Web Site RSS Feeds Broken

John Marshall john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au
Wed Feb 20 00:25:50 UTC 2013


I refer to the following feed files on the Project web site.  The files
are not valid feeds.

  http://www.freebsd.org/security/rss.xml
  http://www.freebsd.org/security/errata.xml

I am guessing that the breakage is caused by the web site build process
and that it is some fallout relating to the XML migration effort.  The
broken feed files contain a spurious xmlns attribute within the rss
element.  Removing that spurious xmlns attirbute results in a feed which
will validate.

Broken:

<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="2.0">

Good:

<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">

While hunting to see if this had already been reported I found the
following PR from October which has received no attention (perhaps
it should be transferred from www to doc?).

  www/172624

Thank you to all you documentation maintainers for the great work you
do.

-- 
John Marshall
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