RSS feed bug

[Rhomal]

I am trying to syndicate the nwn2 blog on my site here: http://www.nwn2worlds.net/RSSNews/tabid/71/Default.aspx

 

As you can see there is some coding error as you can see the HTML in the feed. FYI

 

Anything I can do to help you correct/test it let me know

[Fionavar]

I have queried admin for you Rhomal ... hopefully they can help.

[LadyCrimson]

I know jack about RSS, so hopefully I'm not completely wrong...but Googling and looking at your page source I'd say the feed has some xml issues - ie, your server/software/whatever is having problems with the forum feeds entity definitions - or lack thereof ... or something ... I don't know terminology. So you have all those

 

< /b > < br etc.

being written in your pagesource rather than the actual symbol < br > that's in the XML feed, and so on; thus your page "sees" entity names and to it that means "draw a < " instead of recognizing it as a codetag to make a line break or bold or () symbols, if that made any sense at all.

 

If something like that's actually the case, it's possible you won't be able to fix it on your end, but there I don't really know.

Your portal software may have an idea/solution from past users having similar problems with linking to outside feeds.

[Diamond]

I am trying to syndicate the nwn2 blog on my site here: http://www.nwn2worlds.net/RSSNews/tabid/71/Default.aspx

 

As you can see there is some coding error as you can see the HTML in the feed. FYI

 

Anything I can do to help you correct/test it let me know

It is not a bug, but a feature. RSS feed is XML, and HTML cannot go actual summary data inside RSS feed because HTML is (somewhat) a subset of XML.

 

Wrong:

 <channel rdf:about="...">
  <title>Some title</title>
  <link>http://some.link.tld/article</link>
  <description>
 <b>Bold text</b>
  </description>
  ...
</channel>

Can't do it, "b" is not part of RSS feed XML schema.

 

Right:

 <channel rdf:about="...">
  <title>Some title</title>
  <link>http://some.link.tld/article</link>
  <description>
 <b>Bold text</b>
  </description>
  ...
</channel>

Last one is OK, because angle brackets are escaped and they are not treated as part of RSS feed structure. Otherwise it would confuse the parser and validator, and besides, HTML is not always well-formed XML, so XML parser could choke on it.

 

You need to unescape XML tag content to get actual HTML out of it. I'm sure .NET has some utilities to help you out.

Edited March 6, 2007 by Diamond

[Rhomal]

I see, thanks to everyone for the input and help! I'll see what I can dig up for a work around on the RSS plugins forum.