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Re: Automated Home RSS feed


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Automated Home RSS feed
  • From: Nick Austin <nick1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:47:51 +0000
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At 15:06 25/01/04 +0000, Dean Smith wrote:
> I currently get the automatedhome.co.uk rss feed (amongst others)
using a
> script within homeseer that uses the Microsoft XML parser. Its
currently
> falling over because one of the items is..
>
> <item>
>  <title>Kiss & Mplayer have tiff</title>
>  <link>http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=1358</link>
> </item>
>
> It's giving the error "Error #: -1072896749: Whitespace is not
allowed at
> this location. Line #: 31 Line Position: 15 "
>
> Which equates to the "&" in the <title>. Looks
perfectly legal to me though.
> Unfortunately I borrowed the XML so code dont really know if there are
any
> options I can tweak.

The & is an escape character used to start an entity.

That line needs to be:
<title>Kiss &amp; Mplayer have tiff</title>

Nick.


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