Re: XML User Info Status?

Oh boy. Okay, so humans are not necessarily the best entity spotters. The original problem was not with the single quote (') but with an acute accent (´) which is commony used as a balanced closing single quote or a stylish apostrophe.

In short, the character causing problems (besides myself) is an external entity.

Now I'm wondering how the User nodes info xml generator can compensate, via a DTD, UTF-8 encoding or somesuch, for external entities that are legal HTML on PM.

Matt

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(tye)Re: XML User Info Status? by tye (Sage) on May 08, 2002 at 15:35 UTC
All of the "old" XML feeds at PM (currently includes all except chatterbox xml ticker) suffer from 2 problems. First, they are missing a header declaring the character set which means that "unusual" characters¹ cause problems. Second, some strange interaction causesXML::Generator to sometimes not escape characters that it should. Redoing all of the XML tickers to fix these two problems is planned. I've also heard plans to create new (additional) XML tickers that would rethink the whole layout, tag names, etc. ¹ Most characters outside of `[\s -~]` but I'm not sure if it is just `[\x80-\xff]` or if other characters also cause problems. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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(tye)Re: XML User Info Status?
by tye (Sage) on May 08, 2002 at 15:35 UTC

All of the "old" XML feeds at PM (currently includes all except chatterbox xml ticker) suffer from 2 problems. First, they are missing a header declaring the character set which means that "unusual" characters¹ cause problems. Second, some strange interaction causesXML::Generator to sometimes not escape characters that it should.

Redoing all of the XML tickers to fix these two problems is planned. I've also heard plans to create new (additional) XML tickers that would rethink the whole layout, tag names, etc.

¹ Most characters outside of [\s -~] but I'm not sure if it is just [\x80-\xff] or if other characters also cause problems.

tye

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