Using html charachters (&) in post breaks Atom feed

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marcderooij
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Using html charachters (&) in post breaks Atom feed

Post by marcderooij »

Hi,

In my posts, I use & to write html characters such as é
This seems to break the Atom feed :(
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://sandcat.nl/~marc/blog/rss.php?version=atom0.3
Line Number 42, Column 71:
Please look at
http://sandcat.nl/~marc/blog/
http://sandcat.nl/~marc/blog/rss.php?version=atom0.3
to see what I mean...
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Re: Using html charachters (&) in post breaks Atom feed

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&eacute is no valid XHTML entity, you'll need to use the &#xxx representation.

Entities like & or > and so on won't break the feed...

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Post by marcderooij »

I didn't know that, thanks!

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Post by tadpole »

If you've got some time and a bit of programming knowledge, you may be able to put this to good use (a plugin)--I keep intending to, but haven't had time :(
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