Re: [xml] Parser error: html entities not defined

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:01 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:39:01AM -0300, Bruno Dilly wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I'm trying to parse RSS with html entities, but I'm having the
> > following errors when it tries to parse the rss file:
> > Entity 'ntilde' not defined;
> > Entity 'iacute' not defined;
[...]
>   are the HTML entities defined in the RSS DTD ? if yes then you
> need to ask to load the DTD. If no, then using them there is an error.

It's worse than that :-)

RSS requires HTML markup to be escaped in descriptions, so you have
to write things like
    ñ
and the same for elements, &lt;i&gt;...&lt;/i&gt; to get <i>...</i> into
an RSS feed.

A lot of RSS feeds are invalid.

Liam

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