RSS

[Robert Stocks]

 090607-2.3.1.news  contains two places where the - char is not the -
char  but is the – one - which is invalid (the feed generator is
howere not escaping that correctly.

the easy fix to the source file.



Index: C:/dev/gnucash-htdocs/news/090607-2.3.1.news
===================================================================
--- C:/dev/gnucash-htdocs/news/090607-2.3.1.news	(revision 18134)
+++ C:/dev/gnucash-htdocs/news/090607-2.3.1.news	(working copy)
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@

 <p>Changes between 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 include:
 <ul>
-<li> Bug #582976 – install.sh - webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip is not available </li>
+<li> Bug #582976 - install.sh - webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip is not available </li>
 <li> Bug #583535 - Problem with mysql database</li>
-<li> Bug #583883 – Customer report produces error</li>
+<li> Bug #583883 - Customer report produces error</li>
 <li> Bug #584564: Patch by Chris Dennis to allow a report to be
either a string or html-doc</li>
 <li> Fix all business exports to force file type QSF</li>
 <li> Fix SQL statement which calculates account balances</li>



2009/6/18 Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> writes:
>> Please remember to CC the list on all replies using your mailer's
>> Reply-To-List or Reply-All functionality...
>>
>> Brian Wilson <dragoncharmer84 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I know that there hasn't been any new news. However, when I open the feed
>>> location in my browser (Firefox) I still ought to see a list of the past news
>>> items. When I open the list the page is blank. Additionally, my Live Bookmark
>>> fails to load.
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't use the RSS feed so I can't help you, but the
>> website is up so the only potential issue would be broken html
>> within a news item.   The actual RSS feed code hasn't changed.
>
> (FWIW, the feed is not RSS, but Atom.)
>
> There is a XML parse error due to the presence of HTML-only entities:
>
>
>
> jsled at phoenix [~/tmp]$ curl "http://www.gnucash.org/atom.php" > gnucash-atom.xml
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100 51554    0 51554    0     0  32147      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 40276
> jsled at phoenix [~/tmp]$ xmllint gnucash-atom.xml
> gnucash-atom.xml:45: parser error : Entity 'acirc' not defined
> &lt;li&gt; Bug #582976 &acirc; install.sh - webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip is not av
>                              ^
> gnucash-atom.xml:47: parser error : Entity 'acirc' not defined
> &lt;li&gt; Bug #583883 &acirc; Customer report produces error&lt;/li&gt;
>                              ^
>
> Someone should clean up the news item(s) HTML to not do that.  Patches welcome.
>
> --
> ...jsled
> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-devel mailing list
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>
>



-- 
Robert