Won't parse Yahoo!! RSS

[kyle.c.maxwell@…]

#Sample rss feed:

url = http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=market&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

#Whenever an item title has an apostrophe in it, the following returns nothing: Document.new(Kernel.open(url)).elements.each("//item")

#In addition, any text nodes with apostrophes below will be corrupted. Document.new(Kernel.open(url)).elements.each("//title").collect{|e| e.text}

[anonymous]

Kernel.open(url) should be Kernel.open(url).read

[ser]

• Confirmed that something odd is going on with XPath and the Yahoo feed. In particular, only the //item XPath fails; other nodes are matched correctly.
• Haven't (yet) confirmed that it is related to apostrophes in the text
• The second complaint about text corruption can't be replicated with REXML 3.1.3

[ser]

Can't replicate. Either Yahoo fixed their feeds, or a previous bug fix in REXML resolved this; in any case, the Yahoo feed is working fine in REXML 3.1.4.

Unit tests were added in changeset:1207