RSS 2 Item Author element totally wrong
See original GitHub issueAs per the RSS2 spec
<author>
is an optional sub-element of<item>
.It’s the email address of the author of the item. For newspapers and magazines syndicating via RSS, the author is the person who wrote the article that the
<item>
describes. For collaborative weblogs, the author of the item might be different from the managing editor or webmaster. For a weblog authored by a single individual it would make sense to omit the<author>
element.
<author>lawyer@boyer.net (Lawyer Boyer)</author>
Currently, this package defines an Author object with an optional name, email and link. If anything, email should be required. Link is not needed.
The current implementation is broken and does not correctly adhere to RSS 2.0.
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I agree.
This is also a blocker for me. I might try the enhance this library. But I need @jpmonette around in order to merge these enhancements.
Is there any way to JUST have the email listed in the author field? I’ve tried setting the name field to null or undefined, but then it won’t render any <author> tag. If you have anything or an empty string it will render “email@email.com ()”