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Since Userland doesn’t seem to want free help with fixing bugs in their software, I decided today to also take down from their site fixes for two pretty big bugs in the XML creation script that comes with Manila.

So you know what the two bugs are:

• If you use anything but all lowercase letters for your HTML link tags in your Manila site, your XML won’t recognize those tags as links, and thus won’t include them as links in your XML file.
• If you don’t make your link tags exactly as the script expects them — a format that is by no means required by the HTML specification, then the script won’t recognize them as links, and thus won’t include them as links in your XML file.

I posted a fix for the first bug, but it became clear to me that Dave Winer doesn’t want the community to fix his bugs. Finding this silly, I personally would be happy to provide the bug fix to anyone who wants to prevent this problem from occurring on their Manila server — just mail me and I’ll sent it along.

I’m working on a fix for the second bug; again, you can mail me and I’ll send it when I fix it.