{"id":41,"date":"2006-01-16T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/41"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:38:46","slug":"invalid-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/41","title":{"rendered":"Invalid RSS feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tech\/rss\">RSS feed<\/a>  is an XML document with an implicit DTD. Unlike XHTML, this DTD doesn&#8217;t specify any named character entities so the only ones allowed are &amp;amp;, &amp;apos;, &amp;quot;, &amp;lt;, and &amp;gt;. This means that feed generators, like the one in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> and other blog &amp; content management systems should convert any other character entities into numeric form before serving the feed document. WordPress 1.5, at least, doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the feed received by the reader may generate a syntax error. In practice, most don&#8217;t seem to notice entities in the description text and pass them straight through for rendering but some, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedreader.com\/\">Feedreader<\/a>, choke if there are any in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion&mdash;don&#8217;t use named entities in your blog titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An RSS feed is an XML document with an implicit DTD. Unlike XHTML, this DTD doesn&#8217;t specify any named character entities so the only ones allowed are &amp;amp;, &amp;apos;, &amp;quot;, &amp;lt;, and &amp;gt;. This means that feed generators, like the one in WordPress and other blog &amp; content management systems should convert any other character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}