1.5 RC1 RSS has HTML tags?

[videonerd]

Just upgraded to 1.5 RC1. I realize that now in the RSS feed I get a lot of HTML tags

For example:

Southwest corner of Queen St. @ Roncesvalles Ave. <br /> <br />Graffiti, tagging, ok... what the heck is cow rot? <br />

[Paul Wood]

I've noticed that myself...

Something changed?

[Joe[y]]

nothing changed that i know of. maybe someone else will know.

[Paul Wood]

Has anybody else noticed this? My rss feed has a lot of <br /> in it.

[Connie]

which Feedreader you use, please?

do you read the feed in the browser or in a feedreader?

[Paul Wood]

I've seen it in both Newsgator (outlook edition) and Sage. Sage is browser-based.

[Spudooli]

Connie, people reading my RSS via Bloglines are also complaining of the same thing. Just in case you needed an example that was somewhat easy to test.

[Connie]

in our CVS version this is fixed... GeoS fixed that

thanks for bugreporting!

[Paul Wood]

Is there going to be an RC2? Or is it going straight to 1.5 release? This is one of the things (along with the hashed submit-comment link) that I'm looking forward to.

[Spudooli]

Thanks Connie, thanks GeoS.

[Joe[y]]

Is there going to be an RC2? Or is it going straight to 1.5 release? This is one of the things (along with the hashed submit-comment link) that I'm looking forward to.

we're not sure right now. we're making various changes in terms of security around commenting and if we're not sure it's stable i think we'll probably have an rc2 for a short period (hopefully shorter than rc1 - we couldn't forsee the new spam problems!).

[inophoto]

I'm still getting the <br> tags in the latest release candidate. Is there something I can do to get rid of them?

Cheers,
Jamie

[blinking8s]

geos mentioned this to another user...



If you dont want to have this problem then find in /index.php (near line
843 (807):
<description>
&lt;img src=&quot;$image&quot;&gt;
<br />$body

and replace it with:
<description>
&lt;img src=&quot;$image&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;$body

[GeoS]

It is imposible to have <br /> issue because source code of 1.5 RC 2 is fine. You had to forget update /index.php file!!

[inophoto]

Geos: Nope.. I did update the index.php file. I know I did this because I had to re-edit my rss feed to put the pictures on the right hand side.

Bling8s:

Here is the relevant bit from my feed:

<item>

<title>$headline</title>

<link>".$cfgrow['siteurl']."?showimage=$id</link>

<description>

&lt;img src=&quot;$image&quot;&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;$body

</description>


So.. I think that looks okay.. but I still get the tags.

Jamie

[inophoto]

The solution is posted here. It's a bit 'rough and ready' though. Maybe the devs can look into this for the next release.

[GeoS]

Most of "normal" feeds readers doesnt do problems with this code. I didnt see any feed from Pixelpost 1.5.* in last few months which would be taggy (I mean to see tags in feed content).
Normaly such code should be executed as (X)HTML code by feed reader (or just converted to it).

As long as people do nonstandard software as long we cant do exceptions for them. PP feeds now are valid and are OK for the most of readers and that is why we dont want to change anything!!

[inophoto]

Yeah. I can understand that. I just wish I could work out why my feed is creating these tags.

Fair enough if it is the reader software, but in my case i've had enough comments from different sources to suggest in my case i'm not sure that it is the software.

I get the problem with liferea and NetNewsWire, and someone else mentioned bloglines. I would be happy if someone could check my feed in their software (on a post with paragraph breaks) and confirm whether or not it works for them.

Still, it's not a problem as long as I stick to one paragraph. It'll teach me to be more concise :)

[blinking8s]

I'll check the feed tomorrow if I get a chance, if its breaking in NetNewsWire then it's at least a big enough issue to be worth taking a look at. And some time ago it didn't do this...

please though, find out which readers your sources of the problem are using

[inophoto]

In addition to NetNewsWire, I tried the following:

Liferea
Blam
Mozilla Thunderbird
Netvibes.com
Pageflakes.com

See my post dated 24/6 (Abandoned) as an example.

This photoblog also displays the same symptoms and is a little more obvious as he writes more than me:

http://markpower.me.uk/photoblog/index.php

and this one:

http://www.thesefleetingmoments.com/

[GeoS]

I dont remember but maybe we had fixed it on CVS because my blog works fine.

[inophoto]

So this will be fixed in the next release candidate? Or are we still unsure as to what the problem is?

[GeoS]

Right now RSS feed should be done once forever, especially that we have additional support for it.

[inophoto]

Thought I might just bump this.

Geos: I'm sorry. I didn't understand your last reply.

[GeoS]

If all would go fine RSS feed will be fine forever in final version of PP 1.5

[inophoto]

Excellent. Thanks.

:)

[gavingough]

Hi

I'm also seeing <br /> tags in Bloglines from my RSS feed and am not sure if there was ever a solution posted for this. If there was I seem to have missed it. :confused:

[Connie]

which PP version are you using?

[gavingough]

I'm running v1.5. My feeds did look OK until I upgraded.

[blinking8s]

If all would go fine RSS feed will be fine forever in final version of PP 1.5

Forever is a bold statement ;)