Back when I was looking for a way to aggregate several RSS feeds, a few years back, I found XML-RSS-Aggregate by Audrey Tang. Using it turned out to be problematic and I had to patch it, sub-class it, and write a lot of code above it to have it behave with my feeds.
Then after I asked Audrey about it on the IRC, she told me that XML-RSS-Aggregate was no longer recommended and that XML-Feed was then the way to go. So I happily switched to using XML-Feed and even packaged it for Mandriva, and all was all. I wrote a 5 star review for it on CPAN ratings, and wrote a 1 star review on XML-RSS-Aggregate directing people to XML-Feed instead.
My problems started again, when after setting up the feed for my XML-Grammar-Fortune-based fortunes, I discovered that the Atom feed did not validate and the RSS feed had many warnings. I ended up maintaining XML-Feed in my own repository, and tried to contact the author of XML-Feed about becoming a co-maintainer.
Now, yesterday, I joined #plagger on Freenode, trying to see how I can make progress there, and miyagawa told me about Data-Feed, which is a new module, which aims to be even better than XML-Feed. I thought to myself "Thanks God!" and decided to try to install it.
Not wanting to pollute my system, I decided to prepare Mandriva RPMs of it and its dependencies, which you can find in the link. I ran into a problem with its tests failing due to the fact what Data-Feed tried doing only worked with XML-RSS-LibXML and not with XML-RSS which was all I had installed. I reported a bug about it, and am hoping for the best.
Today, I decided to try to convert the XML-Grammar-Fortune-Synd code to use Data-Feed instead of XML-Feed and see if it would help me. But then I tried to look up some classes with which I was familiar from XML-RSS and realised that Data-Feed had practically non-existent documentation. So I could not look up that information even if I wanted to.
So I decided to stick with XML-Feed for the time being. Right now XML-Grammar-Fortune-Synd depends on XML-Feed with my downstream patches, and fails all tests, and the Atom feed still does not validate. So it's only mostly broken.
I got the web-feed manglin' Blues!
