23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Richard Lewis]

Newsticker.el reports errors when trying to parse most of the feeds I
want to read.

Here's an example backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument processp 85)
  process-id(85)
  #[(proc) "..." [proc id newsticker--process-ids new-list process-id] 3](85)
  mapc(#[(proc) "..." [proc id newsticker--process-ids new-list process-id] 3] "..." [status-ok newsticker--cache name-symbol newsticker--error-headline name event newsticker--cache-add format "%s: Newsticker could not retrieve news from %s.\nReturn status: `%s'\nCommand was `%s'" format-time-string "%A, %H:%M" current-time "" new 0 nil message "%s: Error while retrieving news from %s" throw oops utf-8 re-search-forward ">[ 	\n]+<" t replace-match "><" "<!DOCTYPE[ 	\n]+rdf:RDF" "<!DOCTYPE rdfColonRDF" search-forward "\n" "\n" "<!DOCTYPE[ 	\n]+rss[    \n]*>" "<!--" "-->" error "Can't find end of comment" "<description>\\(<img.*?\\)</description>" "<description><![CDATA[ \\1 ]]></description>" "\\(<[^>]*\\)=\"\"" "\\1=\" \"" set-buffer-modified-p "encoding=\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"" intern match-stri
 ng 1 (check-coding-system coding-system) ((coding-system-error ... nil)) decode-coding-region errordata (byte-code "ed\"" [xml-parse-region] 3) ...] 11)
  newsticker--sentinel-work(nil t "Planet Lisp" "url-retrieve" #<buffer  *newsticker-url-Planet Lisp*>)
  newsticker--get-news-by-url-callback(nil "Planet Lisp")
  apply(newsticker--get-news-by-url-callback (nil "Planet Lisp"))
  url-http-activate-callback()
  url-http-content-length-after-change-function(23585 27680 4095)
  url-http-generic-filter(#<process planet.lisp.org> "...")
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
 of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
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Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
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Recent input:
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <left> <right> <left> <delete> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <delete> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<left> <left> <right> <left> C-SPC <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<right> <right> <right> C-w M-> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> C-y M-v <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <end> <left> <left> 
. . . <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <return> C-x u <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <home> C-SPC <C-down> M-w M-x r e p o <tab> 
r <tab> b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
error in process filter: Wrong type argument: processp, 85 [2 times]
Reading [application/xml]... 2k of 2k (101%)
Reading... done.
error in process filter: Wrong type argument: processp, 85 [2 times]
Mark set
Back to top level.
Mark set [8 times]
Undo!
Mark set
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Re: 23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Ulf Jasper]

Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:

> Newsticker.el reports errors when trying to parse most of the feeds I
> want to read.
>
> Here's an example backtrace:

Could you please send the URL of (one of) those RSS feeds?  Could you
please set newsticker-retrieval-method to 'extern (so that feeds get
downloaded wget is used for downloading instead of emacs-internal
url-retrieve) -- does that help?

Thanks,
Ulf

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Re: 23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Richard Lewis]

At Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:01:40 +0100,
Ulf Jasper wrote:
> 
> Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Newsticker.el reports errors when trying to parse most of the feeds I
> > want to read.
> >
> > Here's an example backtrace:
> 
> Could you please send the URL of (one of) those RSS feeds?  Could you
> please set newsticker-retrieval-method to 'extern (so that feeds get
> downloaded wget is used for downloading instead of emacs-internal
> url-retrieve) -- does that help?
> 
Ah, OK. That works a lot better. I don't think I have any broken feeds
now, apart from some HTTPS ones.

One of the URLs that wasn't behaving with url-retrieve was
http://planet.lisp.org/rss20.xml.
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bug#5246: 23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Ulf Jasper]

Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:
> Ah, OK. That works a lot better. I don't think I have any broken feeds
> now, apart from some HTTPS ones.

Sounds like a wget issue.

> One of the URLs that wasn't behaving with url-retrieve was
> http://planet.lisp.org/rss20.xml.

I'll have a look.

Ulf

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bug#5244: 23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Ulf Jasper]

Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:

> At Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:01:40 +0100,
> Ulf Jasper wrote:
>> 
>> Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > Newsticker.el reports errors when trying to parse most of the feeds I
>> > want to read.
>> >
>> > Here's an example backtrace:
>> 
>> Could you please send the URL of (one of) those RSS feeds?  Could you
>> please set newsticker-retrieval-method to 'extern (so that feeds get
>> downloaded wget is used for downloading instead of emacs-internal
>> url-retrieve) -- does that help?
>> 
> Ah, OK. That works a lot better. I don't think I have any broken feeds
> now, apart from some HTTPS ones.
>
> One of the URLs that wasn't behaving with url-retrieve was
> http://planet.lisp.org/rss20.xml.

Works for me (from 2009-12-19, 16:30 MET until now, 2010-01-04, 19:30
MET)! Maybe the feed contents were screwed and have been fixed in the
meantime. Could you please set newsticker-retrieval-method back to
'intern? Do you have another example?

bug#5244: 23.1; Newsticker can't parse most XML feeds

[Glenn Morris]

In the absence of further info, I am closing this under the assumption
that it is fixed. If it still happens, please reply with details and we
can reopen this if needed.

You can view the whole report at http://debbugs.gnu.org/BUGNUMBER

Ulf Jasper wrote:

> Works for me (from 2009-12-19, 16:30 MET until now, 2010-01-04, 19:30
> MET)! Maybe the feed contents were screwed and have been fixed in the
> meantime. Could you please set newsticker-retrieval-method back to
> 'intern? Do you have another example?