[modules] Parsing pubDate with CDATA

This feed contains items with next format:

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            <title><![CDATA[Trending: England and Man United's Wayne Rooney feeling scrutinised ]]></title>
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It looks like the pubDate not parsed, so SyndEntry.getPublishedDate() returns null.

Please can you fix it, I use latest version from maven central: 1.7.0.

ESPN Soccer Headlines.xml.zip

[mishako]

Привет! The problem is not in CDATA, it is in their custom date format. It’s almost RFC 822 but not really. There should be no AM in an RFC 822 time. Although we could support this format, it seems pretty arbitrary. I wonder why they chose to format it like this and what tools did they use to do it.

I would contact the owner of the feed and ask them to adhere to the standard. Same goes for #318. If you still think that Rome should support these formats, please tell why.

[mishako]

@Hronom I meant that you should contact them. But now you don’t really need to, since you can define custom date formats in rome.properties.