Feed normalizer and Atom

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Hi all -

I can't find any feed normalizer groups, so I'm trying here. In trying to parse an Atom feed with feed normalizer 1.5.1 and Ruby 1.8.7-p72, I get this error:

feed = FeedNormalizer::FeedNormalizer.parse open('http://www.atomenabled.org/atom.xml’)

NoMethodError: undefined method `channel' for #<RSS::atom::Feed: 0x3a4d460>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/feed-normalizer-1.5.1/ lib/parsers/rss.rb:51:in `package'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/feed-normalizer-1.5.1/ lib/parsers/rss.rb:23:in `parse'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/feed-normalizer-1.5.1/ lib/feed-normalizer.rb:130:in `parse'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/feed-normalizer-1.5.1/ lib/feed-normalizer.rb:129:in `each'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/feed-normalizer-1.5.1/ lib/feed-normalizer.rb:129:in `parse'         from (irb):2

Anyone have any idea what this is about? It's true that RSS::atom::Feed doesn't define a 'channel' method, and the normalizer is trying to call it, but I'm not sure what the path to resolution is. Thought maybe someone here might.

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Try doing this

FeedNormalizer::FeedNormalizer.parse(xml, :force_parser => FeedNormalizer::SimpleRssParser)

This :force_parser setting will try to avoid calling the method that contains this call to `channel'

Dan

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I forgot, you might also want to add the :try_others => true option in there as well

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Thanks so much, Dan. :force_parser did the trick, and I added :try_others to my parse calls for good measure.

Much appreciated.