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authorhttp://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/@web>2008-07-30 17:25:36 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-07-30 17:25:36 -0400
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+If a blog entry contains a HTML named entity, such as the `&mdash;` produced by [[plugins/rst]] for blockquote citations, it's pasted into the Atom feed as-is. However, Atom feeds don't have a DTD, so named entities beyond `&lt;`, `&gt;`, `&quot;`, `&amp;` and `&apos;` aren't well-formed XML.
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+Possible solutions:
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+* Put HTML in Atom feeds as type="html" (and use ESCAPE=HTML) instead
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+* Keep HTML in Atom feeds as type="xhtml", but replace named entities with numeric ones,
+ like in the re-escape-entities branch in my repository: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0eb041c65d0653bacf0d4acb7a602e9bda8888e
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+(Also, the HTML in RSS feeds would probably get better interoperability if it was escaped with ESCAPE=HTML rather than being in a CDATA section?)