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Id: 42
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-RSS
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: chriis [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.97
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed Nov 14 08:07:31 2001 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Escaping in RSS output.
Perl 5.6.1, XML-RSS-0.97, Linux 2.2.20 on i386. XML::RSS seems not to escape ampersands in RSS channels to & automatically, and I think it should. At the moment it leaves them in place, which classes an XML entity reference for any URL with a & in - as the URLs of many news sites' stories do. This turns what should be a working RSS channel into something that won't parse correctly at all. At the moment, I'm just using s/&/&/g; in my calling code. It would be a great help if at the very least, there were output encoding options in the module. More information (incl. sample code and broken RSS output) if needed, but I don't think it's necessary in this case. Many thanks for reading. I hope I'm not missing something here..
  Wed Nov 14 08:08:33 2001 Guest - Correspondence added
From: chris [...] cpan.org
Ick, apologies - chris@cpan.org, not chriis@cpan.org. Please CC me in on ticket updates.
  Wed Nov 14 08:09:46 2001 Guest - Correspondence added
From: chris [...] cpan.org
.. and as I should have guessed, my & amp; codes were interpreted in the HTML. For the request to make much sense, change a few ampersands to & amp; codes..
  Sun Nov 24 13:37:37 2002 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Given to BDFOY
  Sun Nov 24 13:37:37 2002 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'stalled'
  Wed Mar 05 23:20:18 2003 KELLAN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'