Re: Atom link problem - my feed URL's filter by parameters &<something>=<something>, my feeds drop dead when I plug in the url with these parameters

Thanks you for replying,

The feed renders properly in both IE and Firefox when I substitute
"&amp;" for "&" in the Atom tag, however when I run it through the
validator I get an error that the Atom tag URL does not match the page
URL.  Also, the URL with &amp; substitution will not return the feed
(404-error innstead).

Thanks again for your assistance,

Mike

Michael Hanson
(202) 564-1320
Office of Executive Services
The Office of The Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency


                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
         Re: Atom link problem - my feed URL's filter by parameters            
         &<something>=<something>, my feeds drop dead when I plug in the url   
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         David Dorward                                                         
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                          Michael Hanson                                       
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               David Dorward <dorward@gmail.com>                               
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On 17 Nov 2009, at 19:44, Hanson.Michael@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>
> I can get IE to render the feedby substituting the &RestrictToCategory
> with &amp;RestrictToCategory.  This changes the error as the URL
> specified is no longer the same as the URL.

It is the same URL — it is just an XML representation of the URL instead
of a plain text representation of it.

What error do you actually experience? Do a range on clients fail to
parse it properly? Does the Feed Validator flag it as an error?

(Please direct responses to the www-validator list and not directly to
me. Thanks.)

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David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk

Received on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 11:34:09 UTC