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diff --git a/doc/bugs/HTML-escaped_titles_in_Atom__44___RSS_feeds_don__39__t_validate.mdwn b/doc/bugs/HTML-escaped_titles_in_Atom__44___RSS_feeds_don__39__t_validate.mdwn index 7acc47fb4..9d95c15e3 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/HTML-escaped_titles_in_Atom__44___RSS_feeds_don__39__t_validate.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/HTML-escaped_titles_in_Atom__44___RSS_feeds_don__39__t_validate.mdwn @@ -2,4 +2,31 @@ The Atom and RSS templates use `ESCAPE=HTML` in the title elements. However, HTM Removing `ESCAPE=HTML` works fine, but I haven't checked to see if there are any characters it won't work for. -For Atom, at least, I believe adding `type="xhtml"` to the title element will work. I don't think there's an equivalent for RSS.
\ No newline at end of file +For Atom, at least, I believe adding `type="xhtml"` to the title element will work. I don't think there's an equivalent for RSS. + +> Removing the ESCAPE=HTML will not work, feed validator hates that just as +> much. It wants rss feeds to use a specific style of escaping that happens +> to work in some large percentage of all rss consumers. (Most of which are +> broken). +> <http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#data-types-characterdata> +> There's also no actual spec about how this should work. +> +> This will be a total beast to fix. The current design is very clean in +> that all (well, nearly all) xml/html escaping is pushed back to the +> templates. This allows plugins to substitute fields in the templates +> without worrying about getting escaping right in the plugins -- and a +> plugin doesn't even know what kind of template is being filled out when +> it changes a field's value, so it can't do different types of escaping +> for different templates. +> +> The only reasonable approach seems to be extending HTML::Template with an +> ESCAPE=RSS and using that. Unfortunately its design does not allow doing +> so without hacking its code in several places. I've contacted its author +> to see if he'd accept such a patch. +> +> (A secondary bug is that using meta title currently results in unnecessry +> escaping of the title value before it reaches the template. This makes +> the escaping issues show up much more than they need to, since lots more +> characters are currently being double-escaped in the rss.) +> +> --[[Joey]] |