[ros-bugs] [Bug 2014] New: Generated feeds don't escape ampersands

Sat Feb 3 03:38:49 CET 2007

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2014

           Summary: Generated feeds don't escape ampersands
           Product: Online Services
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 Hardware
               URL: http://www.reactos.org/en/newsfeed_rss.xml
        OS/Version: ReactOS
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: RosCMS
        AssignedTo: ros-bugs at reactos.org
        ReportedBy: reactos_bugzilla.zen.ssokolow at spamgourmet.com
         QAContact: ros-bugs at reactos.org

Generated feeds don't escape ampersands (the & symbol) and I can only assume
the same problem exists for other characters significant to XML syntax like
less/greater-than symbols.

Because XML is a "be strict about what you accept" format, this renders the
feeds completely useless to most feed aggregators. I know KDE's aKregator fails
to parse the feed in it's current state.

The simplest way to solve the problem would probably be to replace & with &amp;
and then < and > with &lt; and &gt; throughout the input data. I forget how to
do so in PHP and Perl, but for Python, it's as simple as: 

inputstring =
inputString.replace('&','&amp;').replace('<','&lt;').replace('>','&gt;')

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