> sean at shapeable dot com > How are we to get our page valid when the feed pulls in > characters and syntax that are not valid? I've found that even feeds > from internet.com and yahoo.com will disallow validation through > validator.w3.org due to strange characters and whatnot. The only > solution I could think of is have something coded in the feed > puller to > validate it prior to allowing it written to the page displaying the > feed(s). Depending on your server-side language, and the type of validation errors you're specifically getting, I'd say that running it through a little cleanup routine (to escape/encode characters) would be the most sensible approach. If, for instance, you have PHP and the problem is caused by serving pages as ISO 8859-1 charset but receiving feeds in UTF-8, you could use something like the utf8_decode function http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ________________________________Received on Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:02:23 GMT
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