679195 - Greater Than Symbol in Atom Feed Causes Incorrect Display of Author Name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 682117

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[j3vasko]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build ID: 20110413222027

Steps to reproduce:

Added an atom feed that uses the "less than" and "greater than" character like:
<entry>
<author>
<name><!CDATA[[<jsmith>]]></name>
</author>
</entry>


Actual results:

The "From" field in Thunderbird displays:
<


Expected results:

The "From" field in Thunderbird should display the text within CDATA:
<jsmith>

More info:
&lt; and &gt; do not work to display things correctly either.

The feed in question validated fine with "Congratulations!" at:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/

Comment 1

[j3vasko]

Perhaps this could be better stated as Thunderbird has problems with < and > in CDATA author name.

<!CDATA[[]]> should be allowed and display the internal character data correctly on ALL feed fields. See also a special case for nesting CDATA at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA#Nesting

Comment 2

[j3vasko]

There were a few inaccuracies on this bug and it was perhaps a bit misleading.

A new bug has now been added and is better written at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682117

Issues with this bug...

<![CDATA[]]>
was mistyped as:
<!CDATA[[]]>

Also CDATA may not be the real issue.