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Hey There:

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I have the following title.  And it’s getting output like this:

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How can I make it output like a straight ampersand?

I’m already wrapping my elements in CDATA tags so there is no need for the conversion.

camwest,

We have to use an entity for the ampersand or we would not be sending well formed xml.  The ampersand is a predefined entity and has to be escaped.

That said, it is up to the feed reader to recognize it and and then parse it correctly.  A lot of them are capable of that, unfortunately Firefox apparently does not fall among them.  An alternative might be to replace it with a regular ‘and’ using one of the find-and-replace plugins.

Does that help?

Pascal,

That’s not correct actually. It would be well formed XML if the node was enclosed in CDATA tags <![CDATA[ & ]]> is completely valid.  That said.  The category title’s output without converting to entities, so why would the web log titles? Also, custom fields don’t do this…

Here is an example well-formed XML file with ampersands right in the elements node value. 

http://fashioncrimes.bigbangtechnology.com/feeds/content

This works fine and dandy except for in section title fields where it is converting my

& to &


See -> Prom & Grad

Unfortunately that’s just how things stand at the moment: EE applies the light_typography class to the title field, and ampersands get converted into entities. As a workaround, a find and replace might work. That said, please do feel free to make a feature request to have this behavior change in future versions.

Ok thanks Ingmar/Pascal.

Marking as resolved. Please post again as needed.