Rss + PHP + Html Entities

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Hi,

 

I'm trying to setup the RSS feed for my blog and I'm encountering a problem because my title and content use XHTML entities (accented characters mostly). XML validation says they are not defined and looking around, it seems I can fix this using a DTD inclusion. So I modified the template for RSS 2 to include this right after the <?xml tag:

 

<!DOCTYPE rss [
<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent">
<!ENTITY % symbol PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Symbols for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent">
<!ENTITY % special PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent">
]> 

 

However, this does not help at all. One thing to note is that if I copy paste the definition for &eagrave

 

<!ENTITY egrave "è"> <!-- latin small letter e with grave, U+00E8 ISOlat1 --> 

 

 

and put it directly in the !DOCTYPE tag, it works and the &eagrave is recognized as a valid entity.

What I would like to avoid is to copy all entities in the rss template.

Can anyone help me out with this?

 

Thanks