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#241131 01/14/2011 2:45 PM
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i have a user who sent this in. he's right in that chrome chokes on this rss feed and perhaps other readers do as well. any comments?
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I'm having some trouble loading your RSS feed into a couple of different readers. I took a look at the code and I think that it is due to the "&" on line 7. I dont think xml likes "& " followed by a space and it needs &amp to parse correctly. A couple of readers let it slide, Firefox was OK, but Chrome and my android reader both choked on it. Anyway, hope that helps, great site, keep up the good work and let me know if there is anything I can do to help!
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here's the RSS feed:
All Public Forums
Feed URL: http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/cache/global_rss48.xml

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mcasado #241133 01/14/2011 3:36 PM
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Here is a wild guess.
Your board title has a ampersand. And that appears to be where it is choking.
Firefox seems okay but chrome and IE don't like it.
Just for thrills try deleting it for a test.

Okay this peeked my interest. So I checked the feeds on my site.
Using IE, Firefox and Chrome.
Chrome barks the most and firefox barks the least.
But there is some type of problem.
Between the three I either get a error or some or many posts are missing on the feed. Using v7.5.6

Last edited by Ruben; 01/14/2011 6:11 PM. Reason: added comment

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It's definitely the &, it should be escaped with htmlspecialchars


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Gizmo #241141 01/14/2011 7:28 PM
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I thought so too Giz.
I even had a feed with the ampersand and deleted it, still have a problem.
Cleared cache via control panel. Did not manually delete though.


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I'm wondering if changing this line:
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		<generator>{$config.COMMUNITY_TITLE} - UBB.threads(tm)</generator>

In templates/default/rss_xml.tpl

To:
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		<generator>{htmlspecialchars($config.COMMUNITY_TITLE)} - UBB.threads(tm)</generator>

Would work...


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mcasado #241143 01/14/2011 7:30 PM
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humm.
I might try that on my site for a test.


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mcasado #241144 01/15/2011 3:38 AM
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keep me posted if you can.... i'll remove the ampersand
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now i still have a different error in chrome. seems fine in safari still

http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/cache/global_rss48.xml

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 8 at column 30: xmlParseEntityRef: no name

Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
Ambergris Caye Belize Message Board http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php Ambergris Caye Belize Message Board

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Well, line 8 is that &:
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		<generator>Ambergris Caye & Belize Message Board - UBB.threads(tm)</generator>


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mcasado #241148 01/15/2011 1:33 PM
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that "&" is gone tho. so how could something thats gone be causing a problem? there is no longer an "&" in the title of the board.

now it really messes up.shows mass html. i don;'t think this feature is ready for prime time. it works in some browsers only apparently, it doesn't work in chrome.

take a peek in chrome. big mess
http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/cache/global_rss48.xml

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that feed look great in Firefox and Chrome

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Originally Posted by Sirdude
that feed look great in Firefox and Chrome

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This is what I get in chrome:

HTML
Ambergris Caye Belize Message Board http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php Ambergris Caye Belize Message Board Ambergris Caye Belize Message Board - UBB.threads(tm) Re: Volleyball Tournament, Food, &amp; drinks http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/397403/Re_Volleyball_Tournament_Food_.html#Post397403  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:13:09 MST Re: Todays Weather

IE and Firefox are fine.

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Looks great now marty, looks like the cache hadn't cleared after your change.

BTW, it's just supposed to be a jumble of crap, you're supposed to use some sort of parser to read the feed data, not read it directly.


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mcasado #241152 01/15/2011 4:38 PM
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I got it now.
Stupid chrome does not have a built in rss reader by default you need to install a extension for rss.

So the error is gone and after installing the extension it now parses the page correctly.
Here is the extension I added to chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

Now I will close chrome and probably never open it again.
Piece of junk!


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mcasado #241153 01/15/2011 4:48 PM
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you are good. thanks. i never use it either!


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