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google shopping rss feed namespace uri https vs http
One character in a namespace URI, and Google silently ignores every g: attribute
A near-miss RSS namespace URI -- https instead of the specified http -- parses as perfectly valid XML while Google ignores every single g: attribute in the file.
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Is this you?
Writing the Google namespace declaration with https:// instead of the exact http:// URI Google specifies produces a feed that is completely well-formed XML -- every validator that checks "is this valid RSS" passes it -- while Google's own parser doesn't recognize the namespace at all, and silently disregards every g:price, g:availability, and g:gtin attribute in the entire feed.
Why this one is easy to get wrong
https is the more modern, more secure-looking choice for any URL an agent writes today, and a namespace declaration is easy to treat as an ordinary URL rather than an exact string constant Google's parser matches literally. Nothing about the resulting feed looks wrong -- it validates as XML, it has all the right elements -- because the failure is entirely in namespace resolution, not structure.
What you get instead
The pack hand-writes the roughly 40 lines of RSS 2.0 output itself specifically so the two things a wrapping library would hide -- the exact namespace URI and whether an absent attribute is emitted empty or omitted -- are pinned as literal constants in one place (rss.ts) rather than delegated to a dependency's own defaults. escapeXml() is likewise a single named function, not a generic templating pass, so nothing downstream can accidentally double-escape or under-escape a title or description.
Source: ARCHITECTURE.md 'No feed-generation library' — checkable in the pack you receive
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Step 1
Download and unzip
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Step 2
Open it in Claude Code or Cursor
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Step 3
Paste one prompt
The pack contains the exact prompt. Paste it as your first message and leave it alone — it works through the build itself, choosing a cheaper or stronger model per task.
Step 4
Run ./verify.sh
One command. It prints a pass or fail for every check. Green means the build is done — the same script we ran to produce the receipt on this page.
Typical build: about 44 minutes of your agent working, mostly unattended. Then you integrate the working module into your app the way you would any code you’d written yourself.
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