Use dc:creator instead of email-less author#30
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Pull request overview
Updates the site’s RSS feed generation to comply with RSS spec requirements around the <author> element (email required) by switching to the Dublin Core dc:creator element for author credit.
Changes:
- Add the Dublin Core namespace (
xmlns:dc) to the generated RSS document. - Replace RSS
<author>output with an item-level<dc:creator>entry viacustomData.
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| description: post.data.description ?? "", | ||
| link: withBase(`${postUrl(post.id, post.data.publishDate)}/`), | ||
| author: post.data.author, | ||
| customData: `<dc:creator>${post.data.author}</dc:creator>`, |
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customData is injected into the RSS output as raw XML. If post.data.author contains XML-reserved characters (e.g. &, <, >), this will produce malformed RSS and could allow XML injection. Escape the author value (or wrap it in a CDATA section) before interpolating it into <dc:creator>.
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Fixes #29.
<author>is meant to include an email address.Instead, we can use
<dc:creator>:https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-dublin-creator