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Using html charachters (&) in post breaks Atom feed

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:02 am
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...

Re: Using html charachters (&) in post breaks Atom feed

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:48 am
by garvinhicking
&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...

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:30 am
by marcderooij
I didn't know that, thanks!

Marc

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:40 pm
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 :(