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  1. CiviCRM
  2. CRM-2192

Invalid XML in RSS feed

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          • Type: Bug
          • Status: Done/Fixed
          • Priority: Minor
          • Resolution: Fixed/Completed
          • Affects Version/s: 1.8
          • Fix Version/s: 1.8
          • Component/s: CiviEvent
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            Description

            Illegal characters such as ampersands are not escaped in the CiviEvent RSS feed: http://demo.civicrm.org/drupal/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1&rss=1
            http://feedvalidator.org describes this as not well-formed XML. It's acceptable for the RSS feed to not be valid XML, but it should really be well-formed, as the spec encourages XML processors to refuse to handle non-well-formed XML. It may be necessary for all HTML tags to be stripped if the description is not well-formed XML, unless CiviCRM already includes a library which can balance badly-placed tags.

            Difference between well-formed and valid XML: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html?page=4

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                  • Assignee:
                    shailesh Shailesh Lende
                    Reporter:
                    mvc Matt Corks
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