Irony
While writing the previous entry, I used Textile’s footnote feature to note that my site’s RSS feed validates. I even made the word “validate” a hyperlink to the Feed Validator with an url that will autocheck my feed. Since I always check my links as soon as I post a story, I clicked the validator link. Only to find that my feed no longer validates.
Why does my feed no longer validate? Because of the footnote. Specifically, because Textile’s footnote feature makes relative url hyperlinks to anchors within the page. And relative urls are not valid in the element.
My feed will remain invalid for a short period of time while I ponder a solution. So far my options seem to be:
- Remove the footnotes
- Live with a non-validating feed
- Tinker with the textile2 plugin and/or textile.pm, and get it to emit full (not relative) URLs for footnotes.
- Tinker with the RSS flavour to fix up such urls automagically.
- Find/build a plugin that rewrites all relative urls to fixed urls. This will be tricky for the RSS feed, since the url is not relative to the feed being created.
Option 1 is admitting defeat, and besides, I like the footnotes. Option 2 I will accept only as temporary, to keep from having to take down the offending post. Options 3, 4, and 5 mean learning more about Blosxom’s plugin model, and/or the guts of textile; both things are already on my mental list of Todo’s. I’ll post the resolution when I find it.
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