#150 Problem with Ampersand in OPML files

[Andrew Peacock]

HI,
Just a quick one - I exported my OPML file from home to
transfer to my laptop, and the laptop would not
recognise any feeds in the details.

The problem was due to the following line

[outline text="Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips"
xmlUrl="http://www.lockergnome.com/rss/rss.php"
type="rss" version="RSS"][/outline]

The ampersand caused the import to fail. I'm not sure
whether it should have been exported differently, or
imported differently, but when I replaced the ampersand
with 'and', it all worked great.

Regards,
Andy

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I can duplicate this, I also found it can't handle & in urls
either, I have one for the Weather Channel and it does the
same thing, I had to remove all & and also the url with the &
in it.

Regards,
Don

[Anonymous]

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Indeed, the & in url's is a pain. For instance, the
Feedreader News feed on sourceforge contains an & :-s
I can copy the exported url into the 'new feed' wizzard and
it has no problems reading the & there.

Andre

[Jarek Zgoda]

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Invalid characters must be converted to entities (named and
numeric). Also, Expat chokes on generated OPML file (it's
not well-formed XML document anyway).