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Dear Magpie: Don't unescape my content, thanks

14 August, 2005 - 141 words
Bug 1212662: Don’t unescape html entities in ‘description’ or ‘content’ Currently, when MagpieRSS (otherwise marvellous general-purpose feed parser) encounters escaped content, it unescapes it, thus turning hard fought-for “...

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FeedOnFeeds storing feed item datestamps

21 June, 2005 - 142 words
By default, when FeedOnFeeds polls a feed and stores new items, it will probably get the timestamp wrong – most likely in fact, it won’t get any timestamp at all. This is because FeedOnFeeds specifically looks for a dc:date element in each item. If it doesn’t find one, it doesn’t store a time or date for the item. Fortunately, it’s a piece of cake to upgrade FeedOnFeeds to u...

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