Register or log in - lost password?

Username Password

Forums
Feed Informer Support

1. azdrew
   Member

   I've got another situation where my source feed validates and my FeedDigest feed doesn't

   Source feed

   http://feeds.feedburner.com/aPlaceOfGrace

   FeedDigest feed

   http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/FMY1LDF52G.rss

   The issue is in the first article. The source feed has a link to a Joomla component and the link isn't valid in Feed Validator. In my source feed the article is enclosed in CDATA, the FeedDigest removes the CDATA.

   I could fix this by creating a redirect in my htaccess file and not using this Joomla link, but I tend to use these kind of links a lot, so I'd be interested in discovering if this is a bug.

   thanks

   Posted 17 years ago #

2. admin
   Key Master

   Feed outputs were, unfortunately, mostly an afterthought added once the key part of FeedDigest (the HTML and JavaScript outputs) were completed. Unfortunately outputting XML requires more stringent standards than HTML :)

   The problem doesn't seem to be a link as such, but rather just text that has an unescaped ampersand in it (from my reckoning). We should be able to fix that :)

   Posted 17 years ago #

3. azdrew
   Member

   OK, thanks. For the time being a deleted and republished that article with a different link so I can get my feed working again.

   I realized that I probably haven't seen this before because I have search-engine-friendly URLs turned on for my Joomla site, except the component I'm using still uses the standard way of URLs with ampersands. So this may be a more rare occasion for me than I at first thought- but anybody running some form of php based sofware may eventually run into this trouble when an address is thrown into a feed.

   Posted 17 years ago #

4. admin
   Key Master

   I will certainly fix this. However, I've been forced to take the day off tomorrow so it might stall a few days. Please give a nudge here next time you're on and keep it at the top of my mind :)

   Posted 17 years ago #

5. azdrew
   Member

   Oops. OK - nudge ;-) Everything was working well for a while, but last night I entered an article with a link to a google map, and the URL in the feed tripped the invalid feed situation again.

   You can find it in the feeds listed in the initial post - search for the maps.google.com in the text.

   Thanks

   Posted 17 years ago #

6. admin
   Key Master

   All fixed now, and your feed is valid once again! :)

   Posted 17 years ago #

7. azdrew
   Member

   Awesome - thanks very much!

   Posted 17 years ago #

8. admin
   Key Master

   Superb, closing this thread now :)

   Posted 17 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.