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Hello,
I’m currently amending somebody else’s site and i’ve hit a problem I can’t solve.

We’re using XML templates to publish information to Flash as well as HTML.  Unfortunately if an entry contains special characters (specifically @) the XML breaks and gives a “Not well formed error”.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

What about wrapping the fields with the XML Encode Plugin that comes with ExpressionEngine?

Traverse, does that help? Good advice there. The plugin is here.

Sorry for the delay…

I’ve put the xml_encode into the template and it parses.  Unortunately at the front end it gives a load of code instead of the email address I need to show.

All this is about a simple @ symbol :(

This is my XML template code..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<news>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="10" disable="comments|member_data|trackbacks"}
      <comment title="{news_title}" news_copy="{if news_img}<a href="{news_img}qnEoPUaB4eX8C7olTZ5hU43otd5gaUHGtypography_img_src_endalign={news_img-align} ">{news_img}qnEoPUaB4eX8C7olTZ5hU43otd5gaUHGtypography_img_src_endalign={news_img-align} </a>{/if} {exp:xml_encode}{news_copy}{/exp:xml_encode}" news_link="{news_link}" news_date="{news_date}"></comment>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news_panel" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="10" disable="comments|member_data|trackbacks"}
      {exp:xml_encode}<bodyTxt copy="{news_panel}"></bodyTxt>{/exp:xml_encode}
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</news>

Am I even doing this right?

What exactly does “a lot of code” mean? Do you’ve got a link? Also, what version and build of EE are you using?

Hi Ingmar?  Did you get my message regarding your questions?  I sent you login details etc…

After some experimenting i’ve found the problem is when EE tries to automatically turn email addresses into links.  I disabled this option in the admin and the XML parsed no problems…. brilliant… EXCEPT when I added the Blah link into the entry manually it broke the XML again in the same way?

Unfortunately this problem is still an issue and I can’t find a solution :(

Thanks

Still experimenting… added the XML encode to the XML template and the @ character is parsed but the the email is NOT displayed as a link.  When I re-enable EE auto turn emails into links feature it breaks again and displays the following code on the page.

//= 0; i=i-1){ 
if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') output += "&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"; 
else output += unescape(l[i]);
}
document.getElementById('eeEncEmail_JqO8ayzwus')[removed] = output;
//]]>

I’ve also tried converting all HTML into character entities but it then still doesn’t render as a link.

Turn off auto-generated URLs at:  CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Weblog Management ›  Edit Weblog Preferences -> Weblog Posting Preferences and you should be in good shape.

-greg