Forums / Setup & design / Avoid HTML entity encoding in Feed Export Description
Thomas Parisot
Friday 03 June 2011 2:20:12 am
Hello everybody,
I export blog posts as RSS feed with Exponential and it works great.However I encounter a subtle problem: I assed an XML Text attribute to the item description and eZ outputs it as encoded entities.
Wouldn't it better to wrap the description with CDATA + plain HTML? Or is there a way to make this working this way?
Thanks a lot :)
Brandon Chambers
Friday 03 June 2011 9:35:33 am
Can you paste your result and what you're expecting? Also
Your right, HTML in XML is a no-no unless using the CDATA tag. This might be a bug?
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp
Check out the bugs that have to do with RSS:
http://issues.ez.no/IssueList.php?Search=rss&SearchIn=3
Hope this helps!
Brandon Chambers [email protected] blog: http://blog.divdesigns.com Granite Horizon / http://granitehorizon.com
Monday 06 June 2011 12:42:53 am
Thanks for your reply Brandon.
You can figure it out at: http://bordeaux-winetour.fr/rss/feed/blog
I'd like to have items descriptions as CDATA + plain HTML (rather than entity encoded) to ease the feed importing in other systems (like planet).
I would prefer to use the bundled feed rather than doing my own templates/module to achieve that simple goal.
Thanks for your help :)
Wednesday 08 June 2011 4:10:38 am
I've found what caused trouble: it's related the way the feed is built.
By assigning HTML to a DomNode->nodeValue, it's entity encoded to fit in a string.The only way I found was to create a documentFragment, assign the HTML with the asXML method and append the fragment to the DomNode.
No clean way to do that either ;-(