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    In reply to: [PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry] XML Escape Codes Not Working in Descriptions
    Thread Starter chiarella86

    (@chiarella86)

    5 months, 1 week ago

    <p>three ASCII dots &#8230; should not be the ellipsis character</p>
    <p>ASCII dummy apostrophe &#8216; should not be the aposrophe</p>
    <p>ASCII dummy quotation mark &#8221; should not be the right double quotation mark</p>
    <p>ASCII ampersand and codename and semicolon to display as is, and the ampersand itself should be escaped &amp; before it, as in this em dash in ASCII XML as decimal &#8212; or hex &#038;#x2014</p&>></description>

    As you can see, that is the RSS description. The machine correctly escapes the ampersand in order to display the escape code as is *only* in the case of a hex escape code. This is not true for XML escape codes with words or decimal numbers. PHP, WordPress, or PowerPress is, in the *item-level* tag known as *description*, corrupting three dots, the dummy apostrophe, and the dummy quotation mark, and also not escaping properly when you write out the XML as is for words and decimal codes.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: [PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry] XML Escape Codes Not Working in Descriptions
    Thread Starter chiarella86

    (@chiarella86)

    5 months, 1 week ago

    To what I was saying, writing literally & and then a codename and then a semicolon should be properly escaped as & amp semicolon and then the code and semicolon so that it displays properly. When I wrote this, I forgot that this site would reformat escape codes in a way that hid my point, which is why I wrote out the names so strangely.

    Thank you for your time.

    • This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by chiarella86.
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