Dear Magpie: Don't unescape my content, thanks

14 August, 2005

Bug 1212662: Don’t unescape html entities in ‘description’ or ‘content’

Currently, when MagpieRSS (otherwise marvellous general-purpose feed parser) encounters escaped content, it unescapes it, thus turning hard fought-for “<”s into “<“s.

Obviously this makes it really hard to read other geek bloggers who post code samples which use pointy brackets. In fact, it makes it a complete pain. I’ve looked at the source, but I’m pretty much a PHP-lamer and can’t see where this unescaping is going on – the file is available through ViewCVS for you to look at so you can tell me what to change to fix this.

I look forward to seeing what it makes of this post 🙂

Comments

kellan(at)protest.net

14 August, 2005 at 12:34

I feel your pain, unfortunatly it isn’t Magpie unescaping your html entities, it’s expat the underlying library.

Pip

14 August, 2005 at 14:22

aiieeee! no, really? at least that would explain why I couldn’t see in the PHP where it was being done, which is some consolation.

There must be a way around this though, surely? Or am I just overly optimistic?