Rss feed problem on my feed aggregator

hello again – who else would be asking such a question

I was able to subscribe to your feed in Google reader
https://ace.dpwatch.com/feed

When I went to validate your feed
https://www.validome.org/rss-atom/validate

the validator choked on this line
<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”https://wikis.sun.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=57525851&showComments=true&#8221; />

That is part of content from a post from Sun. The error message is

Reference to entity “showComments” must end with the ‘;’ delimiter.

It doesn’t like the way that Sun used showComments as a URL parameter. Since its part of the post content you are aggregating, you don’t have control over it. Would have to do something like create a filter on the content FeedWP is adding into the post, to replace &showComments=true with nothing

?? Hey you…yep who else would be asking such a question…

I tried to remove the Sun subscription, then the feed did not validate because of a google aggregated post…
I guess it’s never ending.

Customizing feedWP is way beyong my poor knowledge.

But what I don’t get is that I was able to aggregate those feeds and they validated, so the least the could do would be to validate also when I need an RSS feed, don’t you think?

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?? Hey you…yep who else would be asking such a question…

I tried to remove the Sun subscription, then the feed did not validate because of a google aggregated post…
I guess it’s never ending.

Customizing feedWP is way beyong my poor knowledge.

But what I don’t get is that I was able to aggregate those feeds and they validated, so the least the could do would be to validate also when I need an RSS feed, don’t you think?

Plus I spend my time sending emails alerting people that their RSS feed doesn’t exist/doesn’t work/doesn’t validate/is nowhere to be found. They are able to fix it, but I doubt that Sun would do anything for me nor Google…

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Hi

My suggestion is, keep removing feeds that won’t validate from your feed. You need to find out if every feed is creating problems or only some. If every time you remove one a new one causes a problem and this goes on ten times, something may be wrong. If it stops after 2 or 3, its something with those specific feeds. Perhaps there is another way you could capture the content from those feeds.

Not sure what else to suggest.

not sure either because I’ve removed some, always a problem though they validated.
No differene if it’s a direct RSS, a Yahoo Pipe, or a Google feed…
Maybe something wrong with the rss script on my side but that’s a widget problem then…
Will try
Thanks

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