Re: [syndication] Why is this rss feed invalid?

[Ward Bekker <ward_bekker@yahoo.com>]

thanx all, some illegal characters were the proble, i fixed it.

with kind regards,

Ward Bekker

  burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org> wrote:

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"Alis Marsden" writes:

> >The discussed rss feed is :
> >http://www.trendsportworld.com/newsfeed/rssfeeduk.asp
>
> >error :
>
> >"Sorry, your RSS source did not validate. Here's the error message,
> >it may be cryptic. "Can't create item "." because "" is an illegal
> >name."
>
> >What did i do wrong?
>
>
> It could be your URLs, they contain &.
> I think & in a URL is illegal XML, you have to write & instead.

In some frameworks which are not XML aware, this can be hard. The easiest/safest
way to do this is to use CDATA

IE



This way you can output valid XML and it would save you from screwing up in
99.9% of the cases.

The only case where you would get hit is if you URL had ]]> in it.

I use this in Emacs lisp (records-mode) so that I don't have to worry about
encoding.

... anyway. This is a good hack and I wish more people would do it.

Kevin

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