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From: Arun Isaac <theroarofthedragon@gmail.com>
To: emacs-org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Bug: XML entities in the ox-rss exporter
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 00:50:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3d05w5f.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)


The ox-rss exporter does not replace characters (such as < , > , etc.)
by their corresponding XML entities (&lt; , &gt; , etc.) in the <title>
field of the generated XML.

For example, the following org file, when exported, will produce invalid
XML where the <title> field still contains the disallowed "<" character.

----- org file begins here -----
* Foo <- Bar

Some text
----- org file ends here -----

I'm guessing the ox-rss backend similarly fails to handle XML entities
in other fields as well.

I can provide a patch for this. But, do I use an external library like
xmlgen (https://github.com/philjackson/xmlgen), or do I write my own
find and replace functions like those in ox-html? I think the xmlgen
based approach provides better abstraction and avoids reinventing XML
generation. But, it will introduce an additional dependency.

Please provide thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you,
Arun Isaac.

next             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17 19:20 Arun Isaac [this message]
2016-05-24 20:48 ` Bug: XML entities in the ox-rss exporter Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-25 10:12   ` Arun Isaac
2016-05-26 10:17     ` Arun Isaac
2016-05-26 12:05       ` Arun Isaac
2016-05-26 13:22         ` Nicolas Goaziou

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