Re: Bug: [patch] fix: ox-rss died when an entry had an empty date [ ( @ /home/arne/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/)]

[Bastien]

Hi Kyle and Arne,

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> I'm not an ox-rss user and don't know if there are more realistic ways
> to hit this error, but I was able to trigger it by taking an already
> exported buffer of
>
> * h1
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       76841adc-b233-4f6d-8446-3478f263544b
>   :PUBDATE:  <2021-01-10 Sun 17:46>
>   :END:
>
> and then setting PUBDATE to an empty string and exporting again.
>
> I'm not sure if the error you see is indicative of a larger issue,
> though either way guarding against an empty string as your patch does
> seems fine.  

Indeed, thanks Arne for reporting this.

> Also, a bit downstream I see
>
>   (if (not pubdate0) "" ;; Skip entries with no PUBDATE prop
>
> It seems like this should be updated to look at pubdate rather than
> pubdate0 to avoid "<pubDate>nil</pubDate>" for the empty string
> case.

Indeed too.  Applied as commit 8ab1e30db in maint.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien