Feed Informer: Forums » Topic: apostrophes showing as "' ;"

admin on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:03:27 +0000

There's definitely something wrong going on with it, as I just tried to use feedvalidator.org to validate it and it totally fried :-(

cookieman on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

cookieman — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:40:55 +0000

Thanks, i tried feedblendr and here is the result: http://feedblendr.com/blends/19328.rss it is empty, i tried using a php rss2html script earlier and the feed came out with errors. I guess the joke of the day feed is just dirty somehow. I am getting the best result with feed digest

admin on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:42:48 +0000

Sure, you could do that, but you'd need to be familiar with the process.

One thing to try, perhaps, is to just try another system that can do this sort of thing for you to see if the error occurs again. Try http://www.feedblendr.com/ for example. It's free, and it might give a different result?

cookieman on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

cookieman — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:09:40 +0000

no its just creating this error in the feed, i am actually using this merged feed in a rss2html script and then displaying it on a webpage my own way, is there a way i could use some sort of templating to fix this problem? for example use php to find every place where its displaying &#39 ; and replace it with '?

admin on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:51:50 +0000

What I mean is.. where are you displaying your digest, etc? If you're only using the RSS feed, there's not much I can do to help as that's not dynamically templated. If you're using the digest in the typical way, by using the JavaScript or HTML code onto a Web page, then there's probably something we can do.

cookieman on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

cookieman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:23:55 +0000

my actual digest? Sorry im new to this, do you mean the output RSS? You can see it at http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/TBPTLQ4LDG.rss

It only has one feed in it at the moment, and that is this: http://www.comedycentral.com/rss/jokes/index.jhtml

Thanks for the quick reply!

admin on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:01:59 +0000

' is most likely the HTML entity equivalent for the apostrophe (I can't confirm that without checking), but it's ben doubled escaped for some reason. This is a problem with some feeds. We do have some tags, however, that can resolve it in certain situations.. but I'd need to see your actual digest to tell you what to do.

cookieman on "apostrophes showing as "' ;""

cookieman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:44:21 +0000

As the title says.. I am trying to get stuff from the RSS feed but its displaying apostrophes showing as "&#39 ;" when i try and use the merged RSS link. Has anybody else had this problem? Please help! (only without the space between the 9 and ;.