RE: [syndication] HTML Encoding BooHoo...

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>Maybe I'm missing something here, but...

No, not really :) ...

>Any reason why you can't scan the feed as plain text before passing it to
>the perl module, and replace all instances of <XML> with
><XML>& etc? Variations can be done ad nauseum to get the
>effect you need.

That is ultimately what I planned to do, but that's a few versions away - I 
was hoping for a "quick fix cos in the last four months, this is the first 
time it's happened" sort of thing. But, in the future, there'd be three 
choices of browser display: "show as intended", "show html 
entities/encoded" and "strip html"... To do something like that, I'd have 
to preparse it before handling it off to the XML parser. That's my plan, at 
least.

I guess, at this point, the quick fix is to handle the <XML> thing only - 
which (almost) in my head seems to quick of a fix <g>. But off the top of 
my head, I can't think of anything else that would cause the same sort of 
show-stopping problem that is currently happening with IE ("oop! hey! an 
XML document! stop showing HTML and start parsing XML!")...

>Seems everything is working for you except this one problem -- I'd focus on

It seems that way - as mentioned, this is the first time the parser ran 
across any show stopping error (another minor error include problems when 
an unencoded HTML tag is up against an XML tag, like "<title><b>This is 
a</b> title</title>" - this isn't really an error as opposed to "too 
difficult to care about" and it only seems to happen with The Register's 
feed every so often)...


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