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leveller
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Just a small pointer to make here... As I was browsing the rss feed with a piece of code i have written, I noticed that there is a small problem. Every time someone submits a design, you cannot stop them from writing & , which is of course illegal in xml markup, and can cause errors on aggregators that do not pre-parse the xml for common mistakes like this. This is an easily circumvented problem by parsing the text and replacing all occurrrences of & with & Just thought the people should know. I noticed that it also threw my aggregator and firefox v1.5 (v2.0 is fine though).

Posted 5 years ago #
Christopher
Moderator

Yes this happened earlier on today with our design feed, so I manually edited the description of the design in question to have... & ...instead of & as, like you mentioned, it caused the RSS feed to have an error and stop working for many aggregators. It's been added to the todo list to automatically parse any special characters and replace them with their html equivalents so it won't be a problem for too much longer :smile:

Posted 5 years ago #
DENiAL
Member

Man.. That todo list must be HUGE! :bakie:

Posted 5 years ago #
leveller
Member

nice. This is a good site, everyone is always on thing straight away. This site is a credit to the OS community. :cool:

Posted 5 years ago #