293433 - RSS reader can't show pages with entity rsquo

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Jarkko Viinamäki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

Thunderbird RSS reader can't read pages which use ’ entity. This happens
at least on Sam Ruby's blog:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/05/03/Simple-Single-Sign-on Line Number
32, Column 21:Udell</a>: <em>Today&rsquo;s --------------------^


See http://intertwingly.net/feeds/ for feeds.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> See http://intertwingly.net/feeds/ for feeds.

*WHICH* feed has the broken message?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Mike]

I am having the same problem at the following URL:
http://community.webshots.com/rss?contentType=rss&value=amygene343

I am using Firefox 1.0.7 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 and the problem is present on
both clients.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I am having the same problem at the following URL:
> http://community.webshots.com/rss?contentType=rss&value=amygene343
> 
> I am using Firefox 1.0.7 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 and the problem is present on
> both clients.

Thanks for posting a URL.  TB 1.6a1 displays a more appropriate error that the 
feed is invalid -- and in fact, that's true, and it's exactly because of the 
rsquo.  HTML entities are not valid within RSS feeds (XML) unless they've been 
defined in a DTD; the problem is with the feed, and you should tell them to 
validate the feed first:
  http://link.toolbot.com/feedvalidator.org/10520