Title: XML error with RSS feed
Last modified: July 12, 2023

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# XML error with RSS feed

 *  Resolved [chrisgu17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisgu17/)
 * (@chrisgu17)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-with-rss-feed/)
 * I have an XML error with RSS feed for my website.
   The W3C feed validation service
   confirm the RSS feed is not valid.You can find the result here: [https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafleurdairs.com%2F%3Fsimple_history_get_rss%3D1%26rss_secret%3Dynvenwnixngwgbdggzdr](https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafleurdairs.com%2F%3Fsimple_history_get_rss%3D1%26rss_secret%3Dynvenwnixngwgbdggzdr)
 * This feed does not validate.
 * line 4, column 29: XML parsing error: <unknown>:4:29: undefined entity [help]
   Historique de Compagnie &Agrave; Fleur d'Airs </title>
 * Thanks for watching
 * Simple History 4.2.0
   WordPress 6.2.2PHP 8.0
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fxml-error-with-rss-feed%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [KZeni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kzeni/)
 * (@kzeni)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-with-rss-feed/#post-16894118)
 * It seems like the content being included in the feed needs to actually display
   the special characters instead of trying to use the HTML entities.
 * To confirm this, I used the direct input method on [https://validator.w3.org/feed/](https://validator.w3.org/feed/)
   with your feed’s source and replaced `&Agrave ;` with `À` as well as `&#039 ;`
   with `'` (needed to add a space before the `;` in this example which isn’t actually
   there since this comment wants to auto-convert it to the special character) in
   any/all occurrences (seems like a requirement for the entire XML file’s contents)
   and it showed the feed was then valid (which is certainly better than needing
   to remove those characters or trying to replace them with a similar character.)
 * So, the fix is probably something to the effect of updating [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-history/trunk/dropins/class-rss-dropin.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-history/trunk/dropins/class-rss-dropin.php)
   so that any content being output is wrapped in `html_entity_decode` to avoid 
   this.
 * While I’m not the developer, hopefully this (or similar) can be implemented in
   a future version release.
 * Also, it’d probably be good to swap out your feed’s secret key so this isn’t 
   kept public, I’d assume.
 *  Plugin Author [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * (@eskapism)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-with-rss-feed/#post-16908431)
 * Thanks for reporting thing issue.
 * This should be fixed now in version 4.3.0.
 *  Thread Starter [chrisgu17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisgu17/)
 * (@chrisgu17)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-with-rss-feed/#post-16908683)
 * Hi [@eskapism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/) ,
   yes, it is fixed.
   Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [chrisgu17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisgu17/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-with-rss-feed/#post-16908683)
 * Status: resolved