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buy.at format change prevents feed registration

Submitted by Mark on Wed, 2009-06-03 07:51 in

buy.at seem to have changed their feed format so that there is a LAST_UPDATED field outside the normal xml structure so that the feeds can no longer be registered by the normal price tapestry system. Do you know if anything can be done to keep buy.at products on my price tapestry site?

e.g. {link saved}

Gives a (meaningless) format of xml|LAST_UPDATED/

Submitted by support on Wed, 2009-06-03 08:24

Hi Mark,

Thanks, unfortunately that change makes the file invalid XML, and such would not be readable by any XML parser. I would contact the network to make sure that they are aware of this.

In the mean time, since the location of <last_updated> is predictable, it's easy to strip it out on the fly. Not an elegant solution; but at least you can start using the feeds until the XML is corrected. I'll email you the patch to do this...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by Mark on Wed, 2009-06-03 11:03

Thank for the quick response David - yes I did tell them that it seemed to be invalid XML

Best wishes
Mark