rfeedparser 0.9.8 → 0.9.9

data/lib/rfeedparser/parsers.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+
+
+module FeedParser
+  class StrictFeedParser < XML::SAX::HandlerBase # expat
+    include FeedParserMixin
+
+    attr_accessor :bozo, :entries, :feeddata, :exc
+    def initialize(baseuri, baselang, encoding)
+      $stderr << "trying StrictFeedParser\n" if $debug
+      startup(baseuri, baselang, encoding) 
+      @bozo = false
+      @exc = nil
+      super()
+    end
+
+    def getPos
+      [@locator.getSystemId, @locator.getLineNumber]
+    end
+
+    def getAttrs(attrs)
+      ret = []
+      for i in 0..attrs.getLength
+	ret.push([attrs.getName(i), attrs.getValue(i)])
+      end
+      ret
+    end
+
+    def setDocumentLocator(loc)
+      @locator = loc
+    end
+
+    def startDoctypeDecl(name, pub_sys, long_name, uri)   
+      #Nothing is done here. What could we do that is neat and useful?
+    end
+
+    def startNamespaceDecl(prefix, uri)
+      trackNamespace(prefix, uri)
+    end
+
+    def endNamespaceDecl(prefix)
+    end
+
+    def startElement(name, attrs)
+      name =~ /^(([^;]*);)?(.+)$/ # Snag namespaceuri from name
+	namespaceuri = ($2 || '').downcase
+      name = $3
+      if /backend\.userland\.com\/rss/ =~ namespaceuri
+	# match any backend.userland.com namespace
+	namespaceuri = 'http://backend.userland.com/rss'
+      end
+      prefix = @matchnamespaces[namespaceuri] 
+      # No need to raise UndeclaredNamespace, Expat does that for us with
+      "unbound prefix (XMLParserError)"
+      if prefix and not prefix.empty?
+	name = prefix + ':' + name
+      end
+      name.downcase!
+      unknown_starttag(name, attrs)
+    end
+
+    def character(text, start, length)       
+      #handle_data(CGI.unescapeHTML(text))
+      handle_data(text)
+    end
+    # expat provides "character" not "characters"!
+    alias :characters :character # Just in case.
+
+    def startCdata(content)
+      handle_data(content)
+    end
+
+    def endElement(name) 
+      name =~ /^(([^;]*);)?(.+)$/ # Snag namespaceuri from name
+	namespaceuri = ($2 || '').downcase
+      prefix = @matchnamespaces[namespaceuri]
+      if prefix and not prefix.empty?
+	localname = prefix + ':' + name
+      end
+      name.downcase!
+      unknown_endtag(name)
+    end
+
+    def comment(comment)
+      handle_comment(comment)
+    end
+
+    def entityDecl(*foo)
+    end
+
+    def unparsedEntityDecl(*foo)
+    end
+    def error(exc)
+      @bozo = true 
+      @exc = exc
+    end
+
+    def fatalError(exc)
+      error(exc)
+      raise exc
+    end
+  end
+
+  class LooseFeedParser < BetterSGMLParser 
+    include FeedParserMixin
+    # We write the methods that were in BaseHTMLProcessor in the python code
+    # in here directly. We do this because if we inherited from 
+    # BaseHTMLProcessor but then included from FeedParserMixin, the methods 
+    # of Mixin would overwrite the methods we inherited from 
+    # BaseHTMLProcessor. This is exactly the opposite of what we want to 
+    # happen!
+
+    attr_accessor :encoding, :bozo, :feeddata, :entries, :namespacesInUse
+
+    Elements_No_End_Tag = ['area', 'base', 'basefont', 'br', 'col', 'frame', 'hr',
+      'img', 'input', 'isindex', 'link', 'meta', 'param']
+    New_Declname_Re = /[a-zA-Z][-_.a-zA-Z0-9:]*\s*/
+      alias :sgml_feed :feed # feed needs to mapped to feeddata, not the SGMLParser method feed. I think.
+    def feed       
+      @feeddata
+    end
+    def feed=(data)
+      @feeddata = data
+    end
+
+    def initialize(baseuri, baselang, encoding)
+      startup(baseuri, baselang, encoding)
+      super() # Keep the parentheses! No touchy.
+    end
+
+    def reset
+      @pieces = []
+      super
+    end
+
+    def parse(data)
+      data.gsub!(/<!((?!DOCTYPE|--|\[))/i,  '&lt;!\1')
+	data.gsub!(/<([^<\s]+?)\s*\/>/) do |tag|
+	  clean = tag[1..-3].strip
+	  if Elements_No_End_Tag.include?clean
+	    tag
+	  else
+	  '<'+clean+'></'+clean+'>'
+	  end
+	end
+
+	data.gsub!(/&#39;/, "'")
+	  data.gsub!(/&#34;/, "'")
+	  if @encoding and not @encoding.empty? # FIXME unicode check type(u'')
+	    data = uconvert(data,'utf-8',@encoding)
+	  end
+	sgml_feed(data) # see the alias above
+    end
+
+
+    def decodeEntities(element, data)
+      data.gsub!('&#60;', '&lt;')
+      data.gsub!('&#x3c;', '&lt;')
+      data.gsub!('&#62;', '&gt;')
+      data.gsub!('&#x3e;', '&gt;')
+      data.gsub!('&#38;', '&amp;')
+      data.gsub!('&#x26;', '&amp;')
+      data.gsub!('&#34;', '&quot;')
+      data.gsub!('&#x22;', '&quot;')
+      data.gsub!('&#39;', '&apos;')
+      data.gsub!('&#x27;', '&apos;')
+      if @contentparams.has_key? 'type' and not ((@contentparams['type'] || 'xml') =~ /xml$/u)
+	data.gsub!('&lt;', '<')
+	data.gsub!('&gt;', '>')
+	data.gsub!('&amp;', '&')
+	data.gsub!('&quot;', '"')
+	data.gsub!('&apos;', "'")
+      end
+      return data
+    end
+  end
+end

data/lib/rfeedparser/scrub.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+gem 'hpricot', ">=0.5"
+require 'hpricot'
+# This used to be based on Michael Moen's Hpricot#scrub, but that seems to 
+# have only been part of its evolution. Hpricot#scrub is cool code, though.
+# http://underpantsgnome.com/2007/01/20/hpricot-scrub
+module Hpricot
+  Acceptable_Elements = ['a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'address', 'area', 'b',
+      'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'button', 'caption', 'center', 'cite',
+      'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'del', 'dfn', 'dir', 'div', 'dl', 'dt',
+      'em', 'fieldset', 'font', 'form', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6',
+      'hr', 'i', 'img', 'input', 'ins', 'kbd', 'label', 'legend', 'li', 'map',
+      'menu', 'ol', 'optgroup', 'option', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 's', 'samp',
+      'select', 'small', 'span', 'strike', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table',
+      'tbody', 'td', 'textarea', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'u',
+      'ul', 'var'
+  ]
+
+  Acceptable_Attributes = ['abbr', 'accept', 'accept-charset', 'accesskey',
+      'action', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'border', 'cellpadding',
+      'cellspacing', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'checked', 'cite', 'class',
+      'clear', 'cols', 'colspan', 'color', 'compact', 'coords', 'datetime',
+      'dir', 'disabled', 'enctype', 'for', 'frame', 'headers', 'height',
+      'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'ismap', 'label', 'lang',
+      'longdesc', 'maxlength', 'media', 'method', 'multiple', 'name',
+      'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap', 'prompt', 'readonly', 'rel', 'rev',
+      'rows', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'selected', 'shape', 'size',
+      'span', 'src', 'start', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'target', 'title', 
+      'type', 'usemap', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width', 'xml:lang'
+  ]
+
+  Unacceptable_Elements_With_End_Tag = ['script', 'applet']
+
+  Acceptable_Css_Properties = ['azimuth', 'background-color',
+      'border-bottom-color', 'border-collapse', 'border-color',
+      'border-left-color', 'border-right-color', 'border-top-color', 'clear',
+      'color', 'cursor', 'direction', 'display', 'elevation', 'float', 'font',
+      'font-family', 'font-size', 'font-style', 'font-variant', 'font-weight',
+      'height', 'letter-spacing', 'line-height', 'overflow', 'pause',
+      'pause-after', 'pause-before', 'pitch', 'pitch-range', 'richness',
+      'speak', 'speak-header', 'speak-numeral', 'speak-punctuation',
+      'speech-rate', 'stress', 'text-align', 'text-decoration', 'text-indent',
+      'unicode-bidi', 'vertical-align', 'voice-family', 'volume',
+      'white-space', 'width'
+  ]
+
+  # survey of common keywords found in feeds
+  Acceptable_Css_Keywords = ['auto', 'aqua', 'black', 'block', 'blue',
+    'bold', 'both', 'bottom', 'brown', 'center', 'collapse', 'dashed',
+    'dotted', 'fuchsia', 'gray', 'green', '!important', 'italic', 'left',
+    'lime', 'maroon', 'medium', 'none', 'navy', 'normal', 'nowrap', 'olive',
+    'pointer', 'purple', 'red', 'right', 'solid', 'silver', 'teal', 'top',
+    'transparent', 'underline', 'white', 'yellow'
+  ]
+
+  Mathml_Elements = ['maction', 'math', 'merror', 'mfrac', 'mi',
+    'mmultiscripts', 'mn', 'mo', 'mover', 'mpadded', 'mphantom',
+    'mprescripts', 'mroot', 'mrow', 'mspace', 'msqrt', 'mstyle', 'msub',
+    'msubsup', 'msup', 'mtable', 'mtd', 'mtext', 'mtr', 'munder',
+    'munderover', 'none'
+  ]
+
+  Mathml_Attributes = ['actiontype', 'align', 'columnalign', 'columnalign',
+    'columnalign', 'columnlines', 'columnspacing', 'columnspan', 'depth',
+    'display', 'displaystyle', 'equalcolumns', 'equalrows', 'fence',
+    'fontstyle', 'fontweight', 'frame', 'height', 'linethickness', 'lspace',
+    'mathbackground', 'mathcolor', 'mathvariant', 'mathvariant', 'maxsize',
+    'minsize', 'other', 'rowalign', 'rowalign', 'rowalign', 'rowlines',
+    'rowspacing', 'rowspan', 'rspace', 'scriptlevel', 'selection',
+    'separator', 'stretchy', 'width', 'width', 'xlink:href', 'xlink:show',
+    'xlink:type', 'xmlns', 'xmlns:xlink'
+  ]
+
+  # svgtiny - foreignObject + linearGradient + radialGradient + stop
+  Svg_Elements = ['a', 'animate', 'animateColor', 'animateMotion',
+    'animateTransform', 'circle', 'defs', 'desc', 'ellipse', 'font-face',
+    'font-face-name', 'font-face-src', 'g', 'glyph', 'hkern', 'image',
+    'linearGradient', 'line', 'metadata', 'missing-glyph', 'mpath', 'path',
+    'polygon', 'polyline', 'radialGradient', 'rect', 'set', 'stop', 'svg',
+    'switch', 'text', 'title', 'use'
+  ]
+
+  # svgtiny + class + opacity + offset + xmlns + xmlns:xlink
+  Svg_Attributes = ['accent-height', 'accumulate', 'additive', 'alphabetic',
+     'arabic-form', 'ascent', 'attributeName', 'attributeType',
+     'baseProfile', 'bbox', 'begin', 'by', 'calcMode', 'cap-height',
+     'class', 'color', 'color-rendering', 'content', 'cx', 'cy', 'd',
+     'descent', 'display', 'dur', 'end', 'fill', 'fill-rule', 'font-family',
+     'font-size', 'font-stretch', 'font-style', 'font-variant',
+     'font-weight', 'from', 'fx', 'fy', 'g1', 'g2', 'glyph-name', 
+     'gradientUnits', 'hanging', 'height', 'horiz-adv-x', 'horiz-origin-x',
+     'id', 'ideographic', 'k', 'keyPoints', 'keySplines', 'keyTimes',
+     'lang', 'mathematical', 'max', 'min', 'name', 'offset', 'opacity',
+     'origin', 'overline-position', 'overline-thickness', 'panose-1',
+     'path', 'pathLength', 'points', 'preserveAspectRatio', 'r',
+     'repeatCount', 'repeatDur', 'requiredExtensions', 'requiredFeatures',
+     'restart', 'rotate', 'rx', 'ry', 'slope', 'stemh', 'stemv', 
+     'stop-color', 'stop-opacity', 'strikethrough-position',
+     'strikethrough-thickness', 'stroke', 'stroke-dasharray',
+     'stroke-dashoffset', 'stroke-linecap', 'stroke-linejoin',
+     'stroke-miterlimit', 'stroke-width', 'systemLanguage', 'target',
+     'text-anchor', 'to', 'transform', 'type', 'u1', 'u2',
+     'underline-position', 'underline-thickness', 'unicode',
+     'unicode-range', 'units-per-em', 'values', 'version', 'viewBox',
+     'visibility', 'width', 'widths', 'x', 'x-height', 'x1', 'x2',
+     'xlink:actuate', 'xlink:arcrole', 'xlink:href', 'xlink:role',
+     'xlink:show', 'xlink:title', 'xlink:type', 'xml:base', 'xml:lang',
+     'xml:space', 'xmlns', 'xmlns:xlink', 'y', 'y1', 'y2', 'zoomAndPan'
+  ]
+
+  Svg_Attr_Map = nil
+  Svg_Elem_Map = nil
+
+  Acceptable_Svg_Properties = [ 'fill', 'fill-opacity', 'fill-rule',
+      'stroke', 'stroke-width', 'stroke-linecap', 'stroke-linejoin',
+      'stroke-opacity'
+  ]
+
+  unless $compatible 
+    @@acceptable_tag_specific_attributes = {}
+    @@mathml_elements.each{|e| @@acceptable_tag_specific_attributes[e] = @@mathml_attributes }
+    @@svg_elements.each{|e| @@acceptable_tag_specific_attributes[e] = @@svg_attributes }
+  end
+
+  class Elements 
+    def strip_attributes(safe=[])
+      each { |x| x.strip_attributes(safe) }
+    end
+
+    def strip_style(ok_props=[], ok_keywords=[]) # NOTE unused so far.
+      each { |x| x.strip_style(ok_props, ok_keywords) }
+    end
+  end
+
+  class Text
+    def strip_attributes(foo)
+    end
+  end
+  class Comment
+    def strip_attributes(foo)
+    end
+  end
+  class BogusETag
+    def strip_attributes(foo)
+    end
+  end
+
+  class Elem
+    def strip_attributes
+      unless attributes.nil?
+	attributes.each do |atr|
+	  unless Acceptable_Attributes.include?atr[0] 
+	    remove_attribute(atr[0]) 
+	  end
+	end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+module FeedParserUtilities
+  class SanitizerDoc < Hpricot::Doc
+
+    def scrub
+      traverse_all_element do |e| 
+	if e.elem? 
+	  if Acceptable_Elements.include?e.name
+	    e.strip_attributes
+	  else
+	    if Unacceptable_Elements_With_End_Tag.include?e.name
+	      e.inner_html = ''
+	    end
+	    e.swap(SanitizerDoc.new(e.children).scrub.to_html) # The important part
+	  end
+	elsif e.doctype?
+	  e.parent.children.delete(e)
+	elsif e.text?
+	  ets = e.to_s
+	  ets.gsub!(/&#39;/, "'") 
+	    ets.gsub!(/&#34;/, '"')
+	    ets.gsub!(/\r/,'')
+	  e.swap(ets)
+	else
+	end
+      end
+
+      unless $compatible # FIXME nonworking
+	# yes, that '/' should be there. It's a search method. See the Hpricot docs.
+	(self/tag).strip_style(@config[:allow_css_properties], @config[:allow_css_keywords])
+      end
+      return self
+    end
+  end
+
+  def SanitizerDoc(html)
+    SanitizerDoc.new(Hpricot.make(html))
+  end
+  module_function(:SanitizerDoc)
+
+  def sanitizeHTML(html,encoding)
+    # FIXME Tidy not yet supported
+    html = html.gsub(/<!((?!DOCTYPE|--|\[))/, '&lt;!\1')
+      h = SanitizerDoc(html)
+      h = h.scrub
+      return h.to_html.strip
+  end
+end

data/lib/rfeedparser/time_helpers.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+require 'time'
+
+# This sucks, but I haven't figured out a better way of getting the namespaces right.
+module FeedParserMixin
+  # ISO-8601 date parsing routines written by Fazal Majid.
+  # The ISO 8601 standard is very convoluted and irregular - a full ISO 8601
+  # parser is beyond the scope of feedparser and the current Time.iso8601 
+  # method does not work.  
+  # A single regular expression cannot parse ISO 8601 date formats into groups
+  # as the standard is highly irregular (for instance is 030104 2003-01-04 or
+  # 0301-04-01), so we use templates instead.
+  # Please note the order in templates is significant because we need a
+  # greedy match.
+  def _parse_date_iso8601(dateString)
+    # Parse a variety of ISO-8601-compatible formats like 20040105
+
+    # What I'm about to show you may be the ugliest code in all of 
+    # rfeedparser.
+    # FIXME The century regexp maybe not work ('\d\d$' says "two numbers at 
+    # end of line" but we then attach more of a regexp.  
+    iso8601_regexps = [ '^(\d{4})-?([01]\d)-([0123]\d)',
+		      '^(\d{4})-([01]\d)',
+		      '^(\d{4})-?([0123]\d\d)',
+		      '^(\d\d)-?([01]\d)-?([0123]\d)',
+		      '^(\d\d)-?([0123]\d\d)',
+		      '^(\d{4})',
+		      '-(\d\d)-?([01]\d)',
+		      '-([0123]\d\d)',
+		      '-(\d\d)',
+		      '--([01]\d)-?([0123]\d)',
+		      '--([01]\d)',
+		      '---([0123]\d)',
+		      '(\d\d$)',
+		      ''
+    ]
+    iso8601_values = { '^(\d{4})-?([01]\d)-([0123]\d)' => ['year', 'month', 'day'],
+		  '^(\d{4})-([01]\d)' => ['year','month'], 
+		  '^(\d{4})-?([0123]\d\d)' => ['year', 'ordinal'],
+		  '^(\d\d)-?([01]\d)-?([0123]\d)' => ['year','month','day'], 
+		  '^(\d\d)-?([0123]\d\d)' => ['year','ordinal'],
+		  '^(\d{4})' => ['year'],
+		  '-(\d\d)-?([01]\d)' => ['year','month'], 
+		  '-([0123]\d\d)' => ['ordinal'], 
+		  '-(\d\d)' => ['year'],
+		  '--([01]\d)-?([0123]\d)' => ['month','day'],
+		  '--([01]\d)' => ['month'],
+		  '---([0123]\d)' => ['day'],
+		  '(\d\d$)' => ['century'], 
+		  '' => []
+    }
+    add_to_all = '(T?(\d\d):(\d\d)(?::(\d\d))?([+-](\d\d)(?::(\d\d))?|Z)?)?'
+    add_to_all_fields = ['hour', 'minute', 'second', 'tz', 'tzhour', 'tzmin'] 
+    # NOTE We use '(?:' to prevent grouping of optional matches (ones trailed
+    # by '?'). The second ':' *are* matched.
+    m = nil
+    param_keys = []
+    iso8601_regexps.each do |s|
+      $stderr << "Trying iso8601 regexp: #{s+add_to_all}\n" if $debug
+      param_keys = iso8601_values[s] + add_to_all_fields
+      m = dateString.match(Regexp.new(s+add_to_all))
+      break if m
+    end
+    return if m.nil? or (m.begin(0).zero? and m.end(0).zero?) 
+
+    param_values = m.to_a
+    param_values = param_values[1..-1] 
+    params = {}
+    param_keys.each_with_index do |key,i|
+      params[key] = param_values[i]
+    end
+
+    ordinal = params['ordinal'].to_i unless params['ordinal'].nil?
+    year = params['year'] || '--'
+    if year.nil? or year.empty? or year == '--' # FIXME When could the regexp ever return a year equal to '--'?
+      year = Time.now.utc.year
+    elsif year.length == 2
+      # ISO 8601 assumes current century, i.e. 93 -> 2093, NOT 1993
+      year = 100 * (Time.now.utc.year / 100) + year.to_i
+    else
+      year = year.to_i
+    end
+
+    month = params['month'] || '-'
+    if month.nil? or month.empty? or month == '-'
+      # ordinals are NOT normalized by mktime, we simulate them
+      # by setting month=1, day=ordinal
+      if ordinal
+	month = DateTime.ordinal(year,ordinal).month
+      else
+	month = Time.now.utc.month
+      end
+    end
+    month = month.to_i unless month.nil?
+    day = params['day']
+    if day.nil? or day.empty?
+      # see above
+      if ordinal
+	day = DateTime.ordinal(year,ordinal).day
+      elsif params['century'] or params['year'] or params['month']
+	day = 1
+      else
+	day = Time.now.utc.day
+      end
+    else
+      day = day.to_i
+    end
+    # special case of the century - is the first year of the 21st century
+    # 2000 or 2001 ? The debate goes on...
+    if params.has_key? 'century'
+      year = (params['century'].to_i - 1) * 100 + 1
+    end
+    # in ISO 8601 most fields are optional
+    hour = params['hour'].to_i 
+    minute = params['minute'].to_i 
+    second = params['second'].to_i 
+    weekday = nil
+    # daylight savings is complex, but not needed for feedparser's purposes
+    # as time zones, if specified, include mention of whether it is active
+    # (e.g. PST vs. PDT, CET). Using -1 is implementation-dependent and
+    # and most implementations have DST bugs
+    tm = [second, minute, hour, day, month, year, nil, ordinal, false, nil]
+    tz = params['tz']
+    if tz and not tz.empty? and tz != 'Z'
+      # FIXME does this cross over days?
+      if tz[0] == '-'
+	tm[3] += params['tzhour'].to_i
+      tm[4] += params['tzmin'].to_i
+      elsif tz[0] == '+'
+	tm[3] -= params['tzhour'].to_i
+	tm[4] -= params['tzmin'].to_i
+      else
+	return nil
+      end
+    end
+    return Time.utc(*tm) # Magic!
+
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_onblog(dateString)
+    # Parse a string according to the OnBlog 8-bit date format
+    # 8-bit date handling routes written by ytrewq1
+    korean_year  = u("년") # b3e2 in euc-kr
+    korean_month = u("월") # bff9 in euc-kr
+    korean_day   = u("일") # c0cf in euc-kr
+
+
+    korean_onblog_date_re = /(\d{4})#{korean_year}\s+(\d{2})#{korean_month}\s+(\d{2})#{korean_day}\s+(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/
+
+
+      m = korean_onblog_date_re.match(dateString)
+    return unless m
+    w3dtfdate = "#{m[1]}-#{m[2]}-#{m[3]}T#{m[4]}:#{m[5]}:#{m[6]}+09:00"
+
+    $stderr << "OnBlog date parsed as: %s\n" % w3dtfdate if $debug
+    return _parse_date_w3dtf(w3dtfdate)
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_nate(dateString)
+    # Parse a string according to the Nate 8-bit date format
+    # 8-bit date handling routes written by ytrewq1
+    korean_am    = u("오전") # bfc0 c0fc in euc-kr
+    korean_pm    = u("오후") # bfc0 c8c4 in euc-kr
+
+    korean_nate_date_re = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s+(#{korean_am}|#{korean_pm})\s+(\d{0,2}):(\d{0,2}):(\d{0,2})/
+      m = korean_nate_date_re.match(dateString)
+    return unless m
+    hour = m[5].to_i
+    ampm = m[4]
+    if ampm == korean_pm
+      hour += 12
+    end
+    hour = hour.to_s.rjust(2,'0') 
+    w3dtfdate = "#{m[1]}-#{m[2]}-#{m[3]}T#{hour}:#{m[6]}:#{m[7]}+09:00"
+    $stderr << "Nate date parsed as: %s\n" % w3dtfdate if $debug
+    return _parse_date_w3dtf(w3dtfdate)
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_mssql(dateString)
+    mssql_date_re = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s+(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})(\.\d+)?/
+
+      m = mssql_date_re.match(dateString)
+    return unless m
+    w3dtfdate =  "#{m[1]}-#{m[2]}-#{m[3]}T#{m[4]}:#{m[5]}:#{m[6]}+09:00"
+    $stderr << "MS SQL date parsed as: %s\n" % w3dtfdate if $debug
+    return _parse_date_w3dtf(w3dtfdate)
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_greek(dateString)
+    # Parse a string according to a Greek 8-bit date format
+    # Unicode strings for Greek date strings
+    greek_months = { 
+      u("Ιαν") => u("Jan"),       # c9e1ed in iso-8859-7
+      u("Φεβ") => u("Feb"),       # d6e5e2 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Μάώ") => u("Mar"),       # ccdcfe in iso-8859-7
+      u("Μαώ") => u("Mar"),       # cce1fe in iso-8859-7
+      u("Απρ") => u("Apr"),       # c1f0f1 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Μάι") => u("May"),       # ccdce9 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Μαϊ") => u("May"),       # cce1fa in iso-8859-7
+      u("Μαι") => u("May"),       # cce1e9 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Ιούν") => u("Jun"), # c9effded in iso-8859-7
+      u("Ιον") => u("Jun"),       # c9efed in iso-8859-7
+      u("Ιούλ") => u("Jul"), # c9effdeb in iso-8859-7
+      u("Ιολ") => u("Jul"),       # c9f9eb in iso-8859-7
+      u("Αύγ") => u("Aug"),       # c1fde3 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Αυγ") => u("Aug"),       # c1f5e3 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Σεπ") => u("Sep"),       # d3e5f0 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Οκτ") => u("Oct"),       # cfeaf4 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Νοέ") => u("Nov"),       # cdefdd in iso-8859-7
+      u("Νοε") => u("Nov"),       # cdefe5 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Δεκ") => u("Dec"),       # c4e5ea in iso-8859-7
+    }
+
+    greek_wdays =   { 
+      u("Κυρ") => u("Sun"), # caf5f1 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Δευ") => u("Mon"), # c4e5f5 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Τρι") => u("Tue"), # d4f1e9 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Τετ") => u("Wed"), # d4e5f4 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Πεμ") => u("Thu"), # d0e5ec in iso-8859-7
+      u("Παρ") => u("Fri"), # d0e1f1 in iso-8859-7
+      u("Σαβ") => u("Sat"), # d3e1e2 in iso-8859-7   
+    }
+
+    greek_date_format = /([^,]+),\s+(\d{2})\s+([^\s]+)\s+(\d{4})\s+(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\s+([^\s]+)/
+
+      m = greek_date_format.match(dateString)
+    return unless m
+    begin
+      wday = greek_wdays[m[1]]
+      month = greek_months[m[3]]
+    rescue
+      return nil
+    end
+    rfc822date = "#{wday}, #{m[2]} #{month} #{m[4]} #{m[5]}:#{m[6]}:#{m[7]} #{m[8]}" 
+    $stderr << "Greek date parsed as: #{rfc822date}\n" if $debug
+    return _parse_date_rfc822(rfc822date) 
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_hungarian(dateString)
+    # Parse a string according to a Hungarian 8-bit date format.
+    hungarian_date_format_re = /(\d{4})-([^-]+)-(\d{0,2})T(\d{0,2}):(\d{2})((\+|-)(\d{0,2}:\d{2}))/
+      m = hungarian_date_format_re.match(dateString)
+    return unless m
+
+    # Unicode strings for Hungarian date strings
+    hungarian_months = { 
+      u("január") =>   u("01"),  # e1 in iso-8859-2
+      u("februári") => u("02"),  # e1 in iso-8859-2
+      u("március") =>  u("03"),  # e1 in iso-8859-2
+      u("április") =>  u("04"),  # e1 in iso-8859-2
+      u("máujus") =>   u("05"),  # e1 in iso-8859-2
+      u("június") =>   u("06"),  # fa in iso-8859-2
+      u("július") =>   u("07"),  # fa in iso-8859-2
+      u("augusztus") =>     u("08"),
+      u("szeptember") =>    u("09"),
+      u("október") =>  u("10"),  # f3 in iso-8859-2
+      u("november") =>      u("11"),
+      u("december") =>      u("12"),
+    }
+    begin
+      month = hungarian_months[m[2]]
+      day = m[3].rjust(2,'0')
+      hour = m[4].rjust(2,'0')
+    rescue
+      return
+    end
+
+    w3dtfdate = "#{m[1]}-#{month}-#{day}T#{hour}:#{m[5]}:00#{m[6]}"
+    $stderr << "Hungarian date parsed as: #{w3dtfdate}\n" if $debug
+    return _parse_date_w3dtf(w3dtfdate)
+  end
+
+  def rollover(num, modulus)
+    return num % modulus, num / modulus
+  end
+
+  def set_self(num, modulus)
+    r = num / modulus
+    if r == 0
+      return num
+    end
+    return r
+  end
+  # W3DTF-style date parsing
+  # FIXME shouldn't it be "W3CDTF"?
+  def _parse_date_w3dtf(dateString)
+    # Ruby's Time docs claim w3cdtf is an alias for iso8601 which is an alias for xmlschema
+    # Whatever it is, it doesn't work.  This has been fixed in Ruby 1.9 and 
+    # in Ruby on Rails, but not really. They don't fix the 25 hour or 61 minute or 61 second rollover and fail in other ways.
+
+    m = dateString.match(/^(\d{4})-?(?:(?:([01]\d)-?(?:([0123]\d)(?:T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)([+-]\d\d:\d\d|Z))?)?)?)?/)
+
+    w3 = m[1..3].map{|s| s=s.to_i; s += 1 if s == 0;s}  # Map the year, month and day to integers and, if they were nil, set them to 1
+    w3 += m[4..6].map{|s| s.to_i}			  # Map the hour, minute and second to integers
+    w3 << m[-1]					  # Leave the timezone as a String
+
+    # FIXME this next bit needs some serious refactoring
+    # Rollover times. 0 minutes and 61 seconds -> 1 minute and 1 second
+    w3[5],r = rollover(w3[5], 60)     # rollover seconds
+    w3[4] += r
+    w3[4],r = rollover(w3[4], 60)      # rollover minutes
+    w3[3] += r
+    w3[3],r = rollover(w3[3], 24)      # rollover hours
+
+    w3[2] = w3[2] + r
+    if w3[1] > 12
+      w3[1],r = rollover(w3[1],12)
+      w3[1] = 12 if w3[1] == 0
+      w3[0] += r
+    end
+
+    num_days = Time.days_in_month(w3[1], w3[0])
+    while w3[2] > num_days
+      w3[2] -= num_days
+      w3[1] += 1
+      if w3[1] > 12
+	w3[0] += 1
+	w3[1] = set_self(w3[1], 12)
+      end
+      num_days = Time.days_in_month(w3[1], w3[0])
+    end
+
+
+    unless w3[6].class != String
+      if /^-/ =~ w3[6] # Zone offset goes backwards
+	w3[6][0] = '+'
+      elsif /^\+/ =~ w3[6]
+	w3[6][0] = '-'
+      end
+    end
+    return Time.utc(w3[0], w3[1], w3[2] , w3[3], w3[4], w3[5])+Time.zone_offset(w3[6] || "UTC")
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_rfc822(dateString)
+    # Parse an RFC822, RFC1123, RFC2822 or asctime-style date 
+    # These first few lines are to fix up the stupid proprietary format from Disney
+    unknown_timezones = { 'AT' => 'EDT', 'ET' => 'EST', 
+			'CT' => 'CST', 'MT' => 'MST', 
+			'PT' => 'PST' 
+    }
+
+    mon = dateString.split[2]
+    if mon.length > 3 and Time::RFC2822_MONTH_NAME.include?mon[0..2]
+      dateString.sub!(mon,mon[0..2])
+    end
+    if dateString[-3..-1] != "GMT" and unknown_timezones[dateString[-2..-1]]
+      dateString[-2..-1] = unknown_timezones[dateString[-2..-1]]
+    end
+    # Okay, the Disney date format should be fixed up now.
+    rfc = dateString.match(/([A-Za-z]{3}), ([0123]\d) ([A-Za-z]{3}) (\d{4})( (\d\d):(\d\d)(?::(\d\d))? ([A-Za-z]{3}))?/)
+    if rfc.to_a.length > 1 and rfc.to_a.include? nil
+      dow, day, mon, year, hour, min, sec, tz = rfc[1..-1]
+      hour,min,sec = [hour,min,sec].map{|e| e.to_s.rjust(2,'0') }
+      tz ||= "GMT"
+    end
+    asctime_match = dateString.match(/([A-Za-z]{3}) ([A-Za-z]{3})  (\d?\d) (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d) ([A-Za-z]{3}) (\d\d\d\d)/).to_a
+    if asctime_match.to_a.length > 1
+      # Month-abbr dayofmonth hour:minute:second year
+      dow, mon, day, hour, min, sec, tz, year = asctime_match[1..-1]
+      day.to_s.rjust(2,'0')
+    end
+    if (rfc.to_a.length > 1 and rfc.to_a.include? nil) or asctime_match.to_a.length > 1
+      ds = "#{dow}, #{day} #{mon} #{year} #{hour}:#{min}:#{sec} #{tz}"
+    else
+      ds = dateString
+    end
+    t = Time.rfc2822(ds).utc
+    return t
+  end
+
+  def _parse_date_perforce(aDateString) # FIXME not in 4.1?
+    # Parse a date in yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss TTT format
+    # Note that there is a day of the week at the beginning 
+    # Ex. Fri, 2006/09/15 08:19:53 EDT
+    return Time.parse(aDateString).utc
+  end
+
+  def extract_tuple(atime)
+    # NOTE leave the error handling to parse_date
+    t = [atime.year, atime.month, atime.mday, atime.hour,
+      atime.min, atime.sec, (atime.wday-1) % 7, atime.yday,
+      atime.isdst
+    ]
+    # yay for modulus! yaaaaaay!  its 530 am and i should be sleeping! yaay!
+    t[0..-2].map!{|s| s.to_i}
+    t[-1] = t[-1] ? 1 : 0
+    return t
+  end
+
+  def parse_date(dateString)
+    @date_handlers.each do |handler|
+      begin 
+	$stderr << "Trying date_handler #{handler}\n" if $debug
+	datething = extract_tuple(send(handler,dateString))
+	return datething
+      rescue Exception => e
+	$stderr << "#{handler} raised #{e}\n" if $debug
+      end
+    end
+    return nil
+  end
+end
+
+module FeedParserUtilities
+  def py2rtime(pytuple)
+    Time.utc(pytuple[0..5])
+  end
+end