[cvsnt] Re: Viewing cvsnt.rss using RSS-Reader-Panel

[matthew b]

Yes, & is an escape character in XML, much like in HTML.
Whenever you have an issue with an RSS feed, you can verify it with the feed 
validator. It turns up two issues with this feed: no character encoding 
specified, plus the lone ampersand.

http://feedvalidator.org/

--Matthew
(Note that text/xml is not technically correct for most XML files, 
application/xml or application/something+xml is.)

>From: "Markus F. Frisch" <Markus.Frisch at nobisCum.de>
>
>Tony Hoyle wrote:
>>Markus F. Frisch wrote:
>>
>>>Hello everybody!
>>>
>>>I've been using RSS-Reader-Panel to view the file cvsnt.rss from 
>>>cvsnt.org for quite a while. That stopped working a few days ago.
>>>I switched to sage 1.1 but that didn't help. The rss-files from 
>>>sourceforge still work fine.
>>>There's one thing I noticed: when I download an rss from sourceforge,
>>>the server says "Content-Type: text/xml". When I download cvsnt.rss, the 
>>>Server says "Content-Type: application/rss+xml".
>>>Anybody else got this problem?
>>
>>
>>rss+xml is the correct content type for rss files (well, one of them...).  
>>Most software doesn't care though (I've seen them sent as text/html before 
>>now).
>>
>>....
>>
>>Never heard of that... it's not configured or anything so it doesn't 
>>surprise me it doesn't work.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Ok, did a little bit of homework, seems the Content-Type is not the problem 
>after all.
>The description of release 2.0.46 contains the line:
>-------------------------snip-----------------------
>2.0.46: Make Rename support optional (default disabled) & mark ...
>-------------------------snip-----------------------
>Seems the xml parser is chocking on the ampersand. If I remove it I can 
>view the resulting file in sage without problems.
>As far as I remember the amparsand character has a special meaning in xml 
>and must be written as &amp; ?
>
>Markus
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