That empty array index is

Ryan Parman — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:48:42 -0700

That empty array index is actually a namespace URL... for RSS 2.0. Since RSS 2.0 doesn't have a namespace, and SimplePie does a lot of indexing with namespaces, that's just how it ended up coming out. :(

Thanks for the thoughtful

Tom — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:07:31 -0700

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Ryan. I don't mean to just bitch about SimplePie, although I'm sure that's how it came off -- SP really is a great project. And in fact the sanitization I complained about is not happening in SimplePie: it's definitely Drupal that's killing the data somewhere along the way.

It's interesting to hear that the custom tag data is already available in the [data] object of... the parser? I definitely did a print_r on the item objects, and thought I probably would've done the same for the parser. Perhaps I forgot to. It's definitely not available in the item object, though, which seems like the logical place for it.

In any case, I do have to stick by my complaint about the variability of the data structures returned by the custom-tag-grabbing routine, particularly when retrieving an item with nested subelements. Check out how you access an FLV included by the widely-supported MediaRSS namespace:

$item[0]['child']['http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/']['content'][0]['attribs']['']['url']

Using an empty string to index an array is pretty awful. Ick.

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That empty array index is

Thanks for the thoughtful