RSS Bug - "&" symbol causes an error

Using Smarty and Magpiers

[wfernley]

I was curious if anyone has encountered this before.

Whenever I enter an entry into my RSS feed that contains an "&" symbol, it causes an error. This can be in the title and most importantly in the URL. I need to get this fixed because a lot of URL's I try to enter contain an "&" in them.

Any ideas?

thanks!

[davidpbrown]

Maybe try using & instead of just &

[wfernley]

Well first of of & contains & ;) and second, I don't think you can input & in a URL can you?

[choster]

The ampersand is a reserved character in XML; it must be escaped, e.g. as
[webmasterworld.com...]

[wfernley]

Great thanks for the post. I will do some testing and see how I can get this to work.

[cabbagehead]

You should probably escape any free-entry input that may contain characters such as this by wrapping the content in a CDATA section

e.g. <![CDATA[contnet here ]]>