RSS woes

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

seems something (at least for me) is wrong with the RSS page, i get the following error:

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

I edited synp's post title and hopefully fixed it.

There seems to be a bug in the forum sw where " is converted to "e; but the post-title character limit is not adjusted accordingly. IOW, " will fit within the limit, but if you're too close to the limit, all of "e; will not get stored in the db.

Then you end up with a faux-entity and the XML parser in the RSS feed complains.

OK, gotta hit the road. Catch everyone tomorrow!

Smokey

OPENSTEP · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:34 am Post subject:

Ah, bingo, that can do it. There are some other things that can screw up the RSS feed if folks start getting odd characters in the body contents themselves. The rss generator isn't too smart about doing those conversions and assumes that all the stuff in the database is already well formed.

If you see problems, we can either edit the topics to do the character replacement or, if it comes up more, I can add a second quoting pass into the RSS generator to make sure none of the cruft gets in there.

ed

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

woes again. getting no response from the rss feed.

and you know what happens to the readers if you don't feed them. they go all feral and just grab any rss at random...

if this isn't fixed soon i could be reading E! online! or german political blogs! or even worse! dodge car forums, or ... or.... MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRL MYSPACE POETRY!

so help! please!

doctype · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

LemonAid · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:47 am Post subject:

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

mickeyinlalaland · Oracle Joined: Feb 18, 2007 Posts: 239 Location: LaLaLand

don't bother with the poetry; as it will just end up like the YouTube blog of Lonely Girl 15

It's all a hoax by Hollywood wanna-be/rejects...the poetry, the blog, bring out the laundry list...does anyone have Bush's audition tapes...

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

OK it seems to be better now. I'll look at the code again but it's probably some special characters not getting encoded properly in the XML. Most of the times it's OK, but once someone mistakenly types them in, poof!

ed

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

so new woes. on my olpc i read trinity via the rss reader...

all dates on all posts are tuesday, 30 november, 1999.

OPENSTEP · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject:

Hmm, strange that all the dates are coming through like that. Do you know if the dates are from the RSS feed itself or are they set from the clock of the machine? Last I recall the feed is compliant to the rss specs, but I'm not sure if there are dates embedded in it.

ed