[cvsnt] Re: Viewing cvsnt.rss using RSS-Reader-Panel

Tue Jul 6 16:34:41 BST 2004

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Markus F. Frisch wrote:
> 
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> I've been using RSS-Reader-Panel to view the file cvsnt.rss from 
>> cvsnt.org for quite a while. That stopped working a few days ago.
>> I switched to sage 1.1 but that didn't help. The rss-files from 
>> sourceforge still work fine.
>> There's one thing I noticed: when I download an rss from sourceforge,
>> the server says "Content-Type: text/xml". When I download cvsnt.rss, 
>> the Server says "Content-Type: application/rss+xml".
>> Anybody else got this problem?
> 
> 
> rss+xml is the correct content type for rss files (well, one of 
> them...).  Most software doesn't care though (I've seen them sent as 
> text/html before now).
> 
> ....
> 
> Never heard of that... it's not configured or anything so it doesn't 
> surprise me it doesn't work.
> 
> Tony

Ok, did a little bit of homework, seems the Content-Type is not the 
problem after all.
The description of release 2.0.46 contains the line:
-------------------------snip-----------------------
2.0.46: Make Rename support optional (default disabled) & mark ...
-------------------------snip-----------------------
Seems the xml parser is chocking on the ampersand. If I remove it I can 
view the resulting file in sage without problems.
As far as I remember the amparsand character has a special meaning in 
xml and must be written as &amp; ?

Markus