By mattbk on

I think this is because the brackets are encoded into the feed as "<" and "&rt;" rather than < and >, so aggregator completely ignores them (but doesn't print them). This has been driving me nuts.

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mattbk commented

Oops, that second tag should have been ">" but look, Drupal changes it into a bracket!

What I meant above was the following: "& l t ;" and "& g t ;"

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webkenny commented

Aggregator uses check_plain before outputting its data. Believe it or not this is a good thing because it prevents malicious or site breaking code from RSS feeds. Imagine if it didn't do this and someone chose to run

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graysadler commented

this is happening to me to in d5. It just recently starting happening. I recently updated php to v 5.2.6, so I'm thinking that may be why ? If it's because of check_plain, then why would it have worked before now?

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graysadler commented

http://drupal.org/node/319575

if you have root access and cpanel, this fix should work for you: http://blog.code-head.com/fixing-libxml-php-bug-and-issues-with-html-ent...

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mattbk commented

Does anyone have any recommendations for an alternative aggregator in Drupal 6?

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ericjam commented

Mine is doing exactly the same. Are you telling me I have to SSH root whatever into my own server to fix this? Are you kidding me? Has this been addressed in a future update yet or what?

HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!!!!!