Hi,

First of all I apologize if this is not the right issue queue for this and feel free to move it around.

It's been a while since this has even happened, but if you ever run across the issue of having your feed item show the html tags without the less than and greater than characters and do not have the luxury of updating your server infrastructure to accommodate the latest PHP and libxml2, then you can apply this very safe and harmless fix: See patch attached.

Credits: http://blog.hoofoo.net/2009/01/wordpress-patch-for-problamatic-libxml2-v...

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#4 aggregator-libxml-do-1394394.patch1.27 KBpvmchau
0001-Fix-the-issue-with-the-less-than-and-greater-t.patch1.84 KBrmontero

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Kjartan’s picture

Kjartan commented
Project: Drupal core » Documentation
Version: 7.x-dev »
Component: aggregator.module » Correction/Clarification

Based on the lack of posts from Drupal users who have run into this issue I don't see the need to add cruft to core to fix this issue. Instead we should update the documentation for http://drupal.org/requirements to specify libxml2 2.7.3 or newer.

Moving this to the documentation team.

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jhodgdon
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Title: libxml2 incorrectly stripping out the less than and greater than characters. » libxml2 version needs to be added to requirements page

I need a second opinion on this...

leehunter’s picture

leehunter commented
Project: Documentation » Drupal core
Version: » 7.9
Component: Correction/Clarification » documentation
Category: bug » task

Referring this to the core issue queue for comment

pvmchau’s picture

pvmchau commented
Version: 7.9 » 7.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » pvmchau
Status: Active » Needs review
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new aggregator-libxml-do-1394394.patch1.27 KB

More conditions for using PHP 5.2.9- with libxml2 2.7.3

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Component: documentation » aggregator.module

Um... This is not a documentation issue at this point? I doubt this will get added to the Drupal 7 code base but moving to the aggregator component.

Status: Needs review » Closed (outdated)

Automatically closed because Drupal 7 security and bugfix support has ended as of 5 January 2025. If the issue verifiably applies to later versions, please reopen with details and update the version.