Wget2 reports "no mirrors were found" for metalink file with mirors
$ wget2 http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink[0] Downloading 'http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink' ...
HTTP response 200 OK [http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink]
No download mirrors found - remove job
$ wget2 --no-metalink http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink
[0] Downloading 'http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink' ...
Saving 'SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink'
HTTP response 200 OK [http://www.metalinker.org/samples/SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink]
$ cat SUSE-Linux-10_1-Remastered-DVD-i386_iso.metalink
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origin="http://metalink.packages.ro/download/download/opensuse/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso.metalink"
type="static" pubdate="2006-10-19-10:40:49"
generator="Metalink Gen - http://metalink.packages.ro"
refreshdate="2006-10-19-10:40:49">
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bundling the various ways (FTP/HTTP/P2P) to get files into
one format for easier downloads, as well as bundling
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</url>
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location="ch"
preference="10">
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preference="10">
http://suse.bifi.unizar.es/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
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</url>
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location="ro"
preference="10">
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location="ro"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="ro"
preference="10">
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</url>
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preference="10">
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</url>
<url type="http"
location="pt"
preference="10">
http://ftp.isr.ist.utl.pt/pub/MIRRORS/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="pl"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="pl"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="ie"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="ie"
preference="10">
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="de"
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</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
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</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="de"
preference="10">
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="cz"
preference="10">
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</url>
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preference="10">
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</url>
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preference="10">
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preference="10">
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</url>
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location="be"
preference="10">
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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</url>
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location="at"
preference="10">
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preference="10">
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</url>
<url type="http"
location="at"
preference="10">
http://suse.inode.at/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="at"
preference="10">
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="at"
preference="10">
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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preference="10">
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</url>
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location="jp"
preference="10">
ftp://ftp.novell.co.jp/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
<url type="http"
location="jp"
preference="10">
http://ftp.novell.co.jp/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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location="ru"
preference="10">
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
<url type="http"
location="ru"
preference="10">
http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso
</url>
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</file>
</files>
</metalink>
From a rough analysis of metalink files having this issue, I have a feeling that libwget/metalink.c (_metalink_parse) doesn't handle XML comments properly.