Library Catalogue New Items feed not validating
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Owen Stephens
May 21, 2010, 4:15:50 PM5/21/10
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Great to see this new feed - but there seem to be some issues with this? See
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://librarycatalogue.warwickshire.gov.uk/ABwarwick/rss.ashx%3Fuilang%3Den
Thanks
Owen
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http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://librarycatalogue.warwickshire.gov.uk/ABwarwick/rss.ashx%3Fuilang%3Den
Thanks
Owen
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Steve Woodward
May 24, 2010, 4:50:13 PM5/24/10
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Hello Owen
That feed comes direct out of AquaBrowser - amongst other things, it
breaks on <author> being in the format lastname, firstname rather than
email address, as per the RSS2.0 spec. Seen that "the shape of things
to come" is listed in there currently - think it's kind of unlikely
we'll ever get HG Wells' email address, much as we'd like it :-) FWIW,
stripping out the RSS container gives us valid XML.
We'll look into it - I've no direct experience with AquaBrowser
itself, I wonder if there might be an alternate feed format that
AquaBrowser could produce.
cheers
Steve Woodward
analyst/programmer
Warwickshire County Council
On May 21, 9:15 pm, Owen Stephens <o...@ostephens.com> wrote:
> Great to see this new feed - but there seem to be some issues with this? See
>
> http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://librarycatalogue.wa...
> Email: o...@ostephens.com
> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
That feed comes direct out of AquaBrowser - amongst other things, it
breaks on <author> being in the format lastname, firstname rather than
email address, as per the RSS2.0 spec. Seen that "the shape of things
to come" is listed in there currently - think it's kind of unlikely
we'll ever get HG Wells' email address, much as we'd like it :-) FWIW,
stripping out the RSS container gives us valid XML.
We'll look into it - I've no direct experience with AquaBrowser
itself, I wonder if there might be an alternate feed format that
AquaBrowser could produce.
cheers
Steve Woodward
analyst/programmer
Warwickshire County Council
On May 21, 9:15 pm, Owen Stephens <o...@ostephens.com> wrote:
> Great to see this new feed - but there seem to be some issues with this? See
>
> Email: o...@ostephens.com
> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
Owen Stephens
May 25, 2010, 5:12:59 AM5/25/10
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Thanks Steve
This might be something to pass back to the vendor I guess - if they want to wrap this data in an RSS they'd be better off using RSS 1.0 and then they could use dc:author for the item author - which would make more sense and be valid. I'm happy to work with it as it is of course, but if there is any chance of getting the vendor to correct this in the future that would be great. I can see other Aquabrowser installations have the same problem, so not just you!
Thanks,
This might be something to pass back to the vendor I guess - if they want to wrap this data in an RSS they'd be better off using RSS 1.0 and then they could use dc:author for the item author - which would make more sense and be valid. I'm happy to work with it as it is of course, but if there is any chance of getting the vendor to correct this in the future that would be great. I can see other Aquabrowser installations have the same problem, so not just you!
Thanks,
Jim Morton
May 25, 2010, 5:34:32 AM5/25/10
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I've had a chat with our library experts who are getting back to the
aquabrowser developers
On 25 May, 10:12, Owen Stephens <o...@ostephens.com> wrote:
> Thanks Steve
>
> This might be something to pass back to the vendor I guess - if they want to wrap this data in an RSS they'd be better off using RSS 1.0 and then they could use dc:author for the item author - which would make more sense and be valid. I'm happy to work with it as it is of course, but if there is any chance of getting the vendor to correct this in the future that would be great. I can see other Aquabrowser installations have the same problem, so not just you!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
> Web:http://www.ostephens.com
aquabrowser developers
On 25 May, 10:12, Owen Stephens <o...@ostephens.com> wrote:
> Thanks Steve
>
> This might be something to pass back to the vendor I guess - if they want to wrap this data in an RSS they'd be better off using RSS 1.0 and then they could use dc:author for the item author - which would make more sense and be valid. I'm happy to work with it as it is of course, but if there is any chance of getting the vendor to correct this in the future that would be great. I can see other Aquabrowser installations have the same problem, so not just you!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
> Web:http://www.ostephens.com
PaulmcIlroy
May 25, 2010, 8:18:41 AM5/25/10
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Hi - Library "expert" here.
I've raised this with Infor who supply Warks Libraries with
Aquabrowser. I've included a link to this discussion as it contains
some useful tips for fixes.
Cheers
Paul
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I've raised this with Infor who supply Warks Libraries with
Aquabrowser. I've included a link to this discussion as it contains
some useful tips for fixes.
Cheers
Paul
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