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Hi,

I’ve noticed today that when using ampersands in category names, and post titles, that when outputting them through the templating language they fail validation due to being unencoded as “&”

I’m fairly new to EE, so there’s probably something I’ve forgotten to do - but any advice on how to output them encoded properly would be helpful.

Thanks.

What version and build of EE are you using? Where do these ampersands occur, exactly? If it’s a custom field, what formatting are you using?

The latest version of EE 2.1.3 - it appears that Category Names are not being encoded when outputting. I’ve fixed the Post Titles one, as that was my mistake and coming out of a 3rd Party Plugin.

But Category Names are definitely not being encoded.

Thanks.

Lee,

I don’t believe category names were ever encoded. I just usually wrap them in the included xml:encode plugin.

{exp:channel:categories channel="news"}
<a href="http://{path=channel/index}">{exp:xml_encode}{category_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</a>
{/exp:channel:categories}