Elfeed unable to get creator information from ACM Journal feeds

[swflint]

Consider the feed https://dl.acm.org/action/showFeed?type=etoc&feed=rss&jc=pacmpl,

This feed provides creator/author information but elfeed does not seem to parse it.

[skeeto]

I wondered why that might be, but as soon as I saw the first tag I knew the reason: This is an RSS 1.0 or "RDF" feed. This is the worst version of RSS, and that's saying something. Such feeds tend to have the most broken and incomplete semantic structure. After all, if they knew better they wouldn't be using RSS 1.0. Because of this trend, I decided not to bother extracting extra information from such feeds. Case in point: This feed from a professional computing society has worse structure than a typical Harry Potter fan fiction blog feed. Your interest is the Dublin Core "creator" element, which may be used multiple times to express a list of creators, but ACM decided to ambiguously concatenate all the authors' names into one element. Had Elfeed extracted this data, it would be gobbledygook since it lacks structure. The empty, self-closing copyright element is a nice touch, too. I can't complain *too* much. The titles, dates, and links are in perfect order, and these are the important elements.

[swflint]

Cool. I'll send them an email. Been thinking about doing that to see if they'd add abstract too.