Title: exposed unicode, HTML, or XML
Last modified: October 3, 2017
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# exposed unicode, HTML, or XML
* Resolved [rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)
* (@rayarasmussen)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/)
* I have received this email from Apple News:
* Channel: Science & Technology Research News
URL: [http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com](http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com)
Dear Raymond Rasmussen, We’ve noticed a problem with your channel. Until the
problem is resolved, new content won’t appear in your channel. Please resolve
these issues and go to News Publisher to resubmit your channel for approval.
Channel content contains exposed unicode, HTML, or XML. Regards, The Apple News
Team
* Any suggestions on how to fix this?
* Thanks
* Ray
* The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fexposed-unicode-html-or-xml%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
to see the link]_
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* Plugin Author [Kevin Fodness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinfodness/)
* (@kevinfodness)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574027)
* Hi [@rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)—
* Can you please follow the instructions here so I can attempt to reproduce locally:
[https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/wiki/usage#getting-help](https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/wiki/usage#getting-help)
* Thanks!
* Thread Starter [rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)
* (@rayarasmussen)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574164)
* I do appreciate your help with this.
* I have followed the link you sent but I’m unclear as to what specifically you’d
like me to do. The link drops me in the center of this section “Publishing from
the post edit screen”
* Please clarify as to what you’d like me to do and i’ll get on it. By the way,
I am not a web developer so if you get too technical, you’ll lose me. Sorry.
* Thanks again!
* Ray
* Plugin Author [Kevin Fodness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinfodness/)
* (@kevinfodness)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574189)
* [@rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)—
* Can you follow the steps in the “Getting Help” section at the bottom of the link
I sent?
* Thread Starter [rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)
* (@rayarasmussen)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574234)
* Apple has suspended by entire channel. Not sure which articles are causing the
problem. I have asked for help from Apple. I’ll let you know what I find out.
* Think it might help to delete the plugin then reinstall?
* Ray
* Plugin Author [Kevin Fodness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinfodness/)
* (@kevinfodness)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574353)
* Probably not. It’s most likely an issue with your content (it can occur with
hidden characters that can sometimes appear when pasting from Word, for example).
If you can follow the steps in the Getting Help section at the link I provided
above, I can attempt to reproduce locally, and give you more specific feedback.
* Thread Starter [rayarasmussen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rayarasmussen/)
* (@rayarasmussen)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9574450)
* Here’s the Pastebin link for the article text in WP: [https://pastebin.com/zmbGeTbe](https://pastebin.com/zmbGeTbe)
* apple news link for the same article: [https://apple.news/A0YYGaJjkQYGJ70JZ5nNMNw](https://apple.news/A0YYGaJjkQYGJ70JZ5nNMNw)
* My apologies, I don’t know how to find the JSON for this article.
* And, what I thought would be really easy to do, “enable debugging” I cannot find
where the advanced settings are located. My apologies.
* Ray
* Plugin Author [Kevin Fodness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinfodness/)
* (@kevinfodness)
* [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9682557)
* The Apple News link you provided doesn’t show any exposed HTML or Unicode when
I load it in the simulator, and the raw paste data you sent looks fine to me
and passes validation when I use it on my WP install, and it successfully posts
to Apple News. Did Apple tell you what, specifically, was wrong with your article,
such as a position within the JSON that the plugin generated that was causing
the problem?
* [Medran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/medran/)
* (@medran)
* [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9687299)
* Same issue is happening for me I got an email just now… [https://pastebin.com/08AqPrFZ](https://pastebin.com/08AqPrFZ)
* and article:
* [https://apple.news/A5kcmFzbpTvW1KuoeU8yDUw](https://apple.news/A5kcmFzbpTvW1KuoeU8yDUw)
* [Medran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/medran/)
* (@medran)
* [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9687348)
* hmmm issue appears to be code after the & sign is showing in apple news which
has never been a problem before o.O
* To avoid an apple penalty I’ve changed the & to and for now… But can you look
into how the plugin is handling the conversion?
- This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [Medran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/medran/).
* Plugin Author [Kevin Fodness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinfodness/)
* (@kevinfodness)
* [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exposed-unicode-html-or-xml/#post-9694402)
* The ampersand issue is a bug, specifically with using markdown format. If you
change your output format to HTML in the Settings page it should fix this problem
for you. We have an open GitHub issue that we are using to track progress on
a fix: [https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/issues/402](https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/issues/402)
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