278515 - planet.mozilla.org's rss feeds are broken (not well-formed) when entry title has < or &

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Websites :: planet.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[:glob ✱]

currently planet.mozilla.org's rss feeds are invalid html.

the error is caused by the following:

<title>MozillaZine: Times Online Q&A; with Blake Ross</title>

&A; isn't a valid entity.

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

cc'ing someone who might be able to fix this and moving to a better component.

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

i guess someone noticed, as the title of the article in question is now "Times
Online Q and A with Blake Ross"

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

Hmm, that does not fix the problem. It only fixes it for now.

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

.. which is why i didn't close this bug :)

Comment 5

[tor]

The bug appears to lie in feedparser (http://feedparser.org/), which
planet uses.

Comment 6

[:glob ✱]

for what it's worth, they are broken again:

<title>Jesse Ruderman: Security advisories for Firefox < 1.0</title>

< should be &lt;

Comment 7

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The bug appears to lie in feedparser (http://feedparser.org/), which
> planet uses.

This comment is based on the defaults for the PlanetPlanet Software:

I would have thought the issue was more likely to be the 

    <TMPL_VAR title>

which is in the default rss20.xml.tmpl - would it not be better to change that to 

    <TMPL_VAR title ESCAPE="HTML">

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> Websites :: planet.mozilla.org

Comment 9

[Golyc - André Villar]

This bug should be marked as dependent of bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372060

At least I think that resolving bug 372060 will resolve this one too

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Did the upgrade earlier tonight fix this?

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

I think this is fixed. If it isn't please reopen.