RSS Feed Issue with IE 8.0

[FuglyDragon]

Articles and Images feed are ok, its just the forum feeds.

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The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value.
Line: 546 Character: 225

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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Looking for images of Synodontis ilebrevis for the Cat-elog...it is the only described species of <em><a href="http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/Synodontis" onmouseover="Tip('<img src="../images/tooltips/Synodontis/g/s/1.jpg" width="320" /><br/><em>Synodontis</em>  ', WIDTH, 320)" onmouseout="UnTip()" target="_blank">Synodontis</a></em> from Lake Tanganyika that we do not have some kind of image of.<br />

[Jools]

Yes, where the post includes a

tag, this breaks (valid) RSS. There is a long outstanding issue with the search that also has this problem. But it's a 9 on the 1 easy - 10 difficult to fix scale...

Clog tags are broken in this topic for some reason!


[clog]Rita rita

Jools

[FuglyDragon]

not sure if it applies but I found this...

I made a small hack to the .xml template:

I changed line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> to {FEED_ENCODING}

and defined variable FEED_ENCODING in rss.php file:

'FEED_ENCODING' => '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>',

Now all browsers eat rss well
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the difference is only for IE as it requires explicitly define xml encoding
if you leave <?xml... in the template you won't see this line in the generated page
the page starts from <rss... and there in no xml encoding string

[Jools]

Thanks, but that's not the issue. That (might) fix a problem with extended character set encoding. You know, omlats, circumflexes and the like. However, the issue we have here is unescaped html appears in the RSS XML file due to the

tag being parsed.



Jools

[Jools]

I need to uninstall this RSS feed and install a new mod. It might not fix the issue, but the current implementation isn't supported and II need something stable / secure to work with.

Working on it now.

Jools

[mummymonkey]

I'm assuming the rss feed is off line just now?

[FuglyDragon]

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This feed contains a DTD (Document Type Definition). DTDs are used to define a structure of a webpage. Internet Explorer does not support DTDs in feeds.

[Jools]

Yes, I had a look at how the whole thing was working and uncovered a few problems. Working on it this morning.

Jools

[FuglyDragon]

Seems to all be working fine now. Thanks for working on it

[Jools]

I have made this video about RSS feeds and will add it to the article on the site too.

Jools

[Jools]

Moved to resolved.

Jools