Re: [syndication] Rogue "&"

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Actually, I think it's a bigger problem; IIRC such documents aren't
well-formed, meaning that any XML processors (not just validating
procoessors) won't be able to deal with them out of the box.


On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:
> The Syndic8.com project is going at an amazing rate. There's now 1200
> quality feeds with another 1000 awaiting approval. Cleaning the data is
> slow and laborious work and could use a few more people ;-(
> 
> But it's become apparent that there are a large number of feeds with two
> basic errors.
> 1. Unescaped &'s all over the place. In titles, links, descriptions,
> site names and so on.
> 2. Unknown entities (but valid in html) in feeds with no DTD.
> 
> This is so common, I'm not sure what we do about it. It's only actually
> a problem for readers that validate XML, and most of them are tolerant.
> But it is invalid XML.
> 
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