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xaphalanx
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Feb 1, 2006, 8:13 AM
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Publishcron:: xml validation errors and html entities
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In our environment we have multiple people publishing articles to the web. These individuals are "non-tech". They don't know what curly quotes can do to an rss feed nor do they have the patience to look for these characters. We are moving towards dependence on the RSS feeds as a way of publishing the content to other affiliated sites. We need a function that will clean the strings of these foreign characters and convert them to html entities. Do you have any add-ons or methods for accomplishing this?
And just because I'm curious has anyone developed PHP functions for interacting with the .dat files?
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void
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Feb 1, 2006, 2:07 PM
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Re: [xaphalanx] Publishcron:: xml validation errors and html entities
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I also need asolution to the rss and php issue. It would be nice if it where somehow buildt into the system, and did not rely on the seach system/templates which is - as I understand it - the source of some of these problems.
A tool like the syndication tool would be perfect. Here the user could check what categories to include, how many days old the entries should be, and so on.
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xaphalanx
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Feb 1, 2006, 2:34 PM
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While the extra features would be nice, just having valid RSS feeds directly from publishcron.cgi would be prefered. I've got a work around in place but I'd rather have article manager handle it. The real problem is that the characters are not being changed to html entities at the time they are entered in the wysiwyg editor.
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Feb 2, 2006, 9:53 AM
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Hi there.
Thanks for the discussion guys!
The WYSIWYG is actually known to not be too friendly to the RSS feeds because of all the extra code it generates. Typically, I usually setup my RSS so that it only includes the article title and date so someone reading it can link back to the main site if they want more details.
In situations where a summary is wanted in the feeds, I usually just setup a plain text area called “RSS Version”. When you create the article, just put your summary in both fields so they are the same but setup your RSS feed to use the plain text version.
Does that make sense? Let me know if you need anymore details  .
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