Venus bug? Weird behavior with missing channel_link and channel_title_plain etc

[David L. Sifry]

More data: Looks like the RSS version of the feed works just fine:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=north+korea+nuclear+test&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

Dave

David L. Sifry wrote:
> Awesome, that fixed that problem.
>
> Here's a strange one, though.  Here's the feed:
>
> http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=north+korea+nuclear+test&ie=UTF-8&output=atom 
>
>
> That's a Google News Atom 0.3 feed (I don't think they produce an Atom 
> 1.0 feed yet) and planet.py seems to think that there are no new items 
> in 90 days (even though clearly there are)...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave
>
> Sam Ruby wrote:
>> David L. Sifry wrote:
>>> I'm scratching my head.  If I add the following feed to a 
>>> venus-based planet, I lose information on things like the 
>>> channel_link, channel_title, channel_name in my .tmpl files.  Here's 
>>> the feed:
>>>
>>> http://feeds.technorati.com/search/bush
>>>
>>> Shouldn't channel_* take info from the <channel> element in the RSS 
>>> feed? Venus seems to lose that info in any items after the first 
>>> item.  I can give you config.ini files where this bug is easily 
>>> reproducable...
>>
>> RSS items that contained source elements confused reconstitute.py.
>>
>> Test case added and problem fixed.
>>
>> http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/tests/data/reconstitute/rsssource.xml
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Sam Ruby
>

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