Hi

I'm trying to parse XML from various XML services of the monastery and got bitten by entities in attributes:

<info site="http://perlmonks.org/" sitename="PerlMonks" ticker_id="507
+310" gentimeGMT="2015-02-14 17:40:04" xmlstyle="clean" xmlmaker="XML:
+:Fling 1.001" fetch_num="109" delta_since="2015-02-14 17:29:58&amp;nb
+sp;GMT" min_poll_seconds="600">Rendered by the Noderep XML Ticker</in
+fo>

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while entities in attributes seem to be allowed this format of delta_since="2015-02-14 17:29:58&amp;nbsp;GMT" looks broken¹.

(compare also gentimeGMT="2015-02-14 17:40:04")

Could someone enlighten me if and why that's necessary?

Otherwise should it better be changed to delta_since="2015-02-14 17:29:58 GMT"?

Or are there date-time parsers requiring these entities?

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

¹) (or do I miss something in the XML specification?)

In reply to Date format in attributes of local XML API by LanX

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