Atom/RSS parse Error

March 16, 2006 1:13 PM

since this morning i'm getting a parse error for the feed http://xml.metafilter.com/atom.xml (ff live bookmark feed)... but not for http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml (xml feed link in mefi sidebar)... just me (and/or my sage reader)? or is it a bug?
posted by RockyChrysler to Bugs at 1:13 PM (8 comments total)

Unescaped angle brackets in the content field of the entry for thread 50111 are to blame.
posted by cortex at 1:34 PM on March 16, 2006

specifically:

<blockquote><I>.. to my left&lt;/a&gt; is a youngish software developer from Yokohama, incandescent with rage. To my right is the finance officer of a major games publisher. Worryingly, he is tapping sums into a pocket calculator and shaking his head...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
posted by cortex at 1:36 PM on March 16, 2006

(I have to admit I'm awfully curious how those two tags managed to escape escaping.)
posted by cortex at 1:38 PM on March 16, 2006

I fixed it. The poster put the first two tags into the URL description field along with the first few words. Apparently if you do that, they don't get escaped.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:52 PM on March 16, 2006

Let me know if the feed works now.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:53 PM on March 16, 2006

Huh. That's some evil genius shit right there. Matt may want to close that up.
posted by cortex at 2:02 PM on March 16, 2006

works fine from here now!
posted by RockyChrysler at 2:14 PM on March 16, 2006

Yeah, this seems to happen to me in Safari's feed reader a couple times a month. Thanks for fixing it.
posted by aaronetc at 5:11 PM on March 16, 2006