Re: [Tb] HTML entities and feed validation

Scott,
the problem is not only emdashes. Try using Umlauts (üäö) or accented
chars (é)... Tinderbox correctly escapes these as entities (ü etc),
and for HTML we want that.

So what I ended up using was turning title and describtion into CDATA
blocks like so:

<item>
        <title><![CDATA[^title^]]></title>
        <link>http://traumwind.de/^path^</link>
<description><![CDATA[^text^]]></description>
</item>

HTH,
-Martin
http://traumwind.de/tindertraum/

Scott Price wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I've got a newsfeed exporting from Tinderbox and its working well but
> for one thing that I don't know how to change. The text going in often
> copy-pastes text, and I use emdashes in my writing. Feed validators like
>
> http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi
>
> ... get the output of a note which has an emdash and complains about an
> "unknown entity &mdash;" . If I take Tinderbox's output and do a
> (BBEdit) find/replace ( &mdash; to &amp;mdash; ) it's fine, and that's
> one of Feed Validator's recommendations.
>
> But running a find/replace in a separate application isn't a good
> long-term solution. Is there a way to change what Tinderbox exports an
> emdash as? Any other suggestions for automating this using Automator or
> a command-line script? Or perhaps there's another way to declare parts
> of my feed xml file so that entity is acceptable within certain blocks?
>
> --Scott
>
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Received on Sun Jul 16 2006 - 21:20:52 EDT