Ask feed in Bloglines has been borked all weekend

June 25, 2006 9:17 AM

Ask feed in Bloglines has been borked all weekend.

feedvalidator gives the following warning:

This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.

line 525, column 58: title should not contain HTML: north New Brunswick & Gaspé Peninsula [help]

< title> north New Brunswick & Gaspé Peninsula
posted by achmorrison to Bugs at 9:17 AM (6 comments total)

I think I fixed it for now, by changing the accented e's to unaccented e's. I'll try to go back and see if I can re-enter them in a way that doesn't bork the feed.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:27 AM on June 25, 2006

Jess, are you sure the problem isn't that the ampersand appears as & and not &?
posted by Zozo at 10:18 AM on June 25, 2006

I do a XMLformat() on the titles, so all thé accénts should be éscapéd but apparéntly not. Dios mio!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:58 AM on June 25, 2006

I assumed it was the ampersand as well. here is an intresting blog entry about the problems with RSS feeds and internationalization/punctuation. It links to this site on www.詹姆斯.com. :P Which you can also get to at http://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/
posted by delmoi at 11:14 AM on June 25, 2006

Oops, that should be http://www.詹姆斯.com.
posted by delmoi at 11:15 AM on June 25, 2006

Thanks for checking into it. I sent a report to Bloglines as well.
posted by achmorrison at 12:47 PM on June 25, 2006