[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2683: rss-functions.php incorrectly handles multiple links in atom format

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#2683: rss-functions.php incorrectly handles multiple links in atom format
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 Reporter:  elidourado    |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect        |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  General       |      Version:  2.0.2    
 Severity:  minor         |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  dev-feedback  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 The atom parsing of the rss.php file is still very, very strange. It does
 concatenate several fields and it handles atom very poorly, overall.
 However, atom now seems to be a dying format. Google, which used to be
 exclusively atom, has recently standardized a lot of their API, and while
 they still default to atom feeds, they also offer RSS2 feeds if you
 specifically request them, on virtually all of their services that offer
 feeds.

 So while this is still a problem to some degree, I think it's not a
 particularly critical one.

 More to the point, given that most of this code is derived from another
 source (Magpie/Snoopy), it would make more sense to yank this modified
 version out and work on a way to include their code in a more direct
 fashion instead of having a somewhat hacked up version in the source. That
 way, new versions of that code can be easily incorporated into future
 revisions.

 I vote for pushing this back to 2.3 or 2.4, or until somebody gets annoyed
 about it enough to work on it. I stopped messing around with it when
 Google standardized and started offering everything in RSS2 compatible
 formats.

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