Feed Validator trouble – invalid character in a URI:

  • Resolved sparkletack

    (@sparkletack)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    I’m having a feed validation problem that I haven’t seen addressed in this forum:

    I get this error:

    line 497, column 224: Invalid character in a URI: ' '

    which refers to this chunk of the RSS feed:

    But though the rattling, banging, ink-smudging contraptions will likely retain a place in the hearts of a romantic rear-guard, the “closed” sign in the window of Kehlet’s makes it official. (sigh)
]]></content:encoded>

    and here’s the feed address:

    https://calyxdesign.com/feed/

    Those HTML character entities (curly quotes) shouldn’t cause a problem, should they? They occur in other places in this feed, as well as in others.

    Strangely, though, those “curly quotes” are being entered in WP as straight hash marks … I don’t understand how or what is turning them into curlies.

    Any idea what is going on, and better yet, how I can fix it?

    Thanks for looking …

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  • Thread Starter sparkletack

    (@sparkletack)

    I’ve eliminated those pesky character entities by upgrading to WP 2.5, and enabling the “WP Unformatted” plugin.

    Didn’t solve the feed validation issue.

    Feed Validator returns the same error, and the highlighted section of the feed looks like this:

    <p>But though the rattling, banging, ink-smudging contraptions will likely retain a place in the hearts of a romantic rear-guard, the "closed" sign in the window of Kehlet's makes it official. (sigh)</p>]]></content:encoded>

    Can some feed genius tell me what’s wrong with this? Looks fine to me!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Huh. That’s weird.

    Try eliminating those relative references, see if it goes away. Those are bad in feeds anyway, since the feedreader can’t always make them work and you lose images and things to your feed users.

    Thread Starter sparkletack

    (@sparkletack)

    Yeah, I was hoping to solve the other thing first, but you’re right — might as well clean up everything I can and hope the “weirdness” takes care of itself.

    Thread Starter sparkletack

    (@sparkletack)

    Okey-doke … turns out that fixing the relative links fixed the “invalid character” problem as well.

    Let that be a lesson to me! ??

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