What can i do to validate my xml feeds ?

[2levelsabove]

The feed is at : http://alltherides.com/feed.xml

 

I used htmlentities on the description but still have errors that show up.

 

 

please suggest.

 

Thanks

 

[harristweed]

start here

 

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Falltherides.com%2Ffeed.xml

 

Find and remove the 'bad' charaters

[2levelsabove]

well the bad characters are characters like "." and " ' ".

 

I tried doing htmlentities and even addslashes but that doesnt seem to do anything.

 

 

 

 

 

[harristweed]

I think that you are mistaken about which are the 'bad' characters.

 

This is a line 338 taken from the validator"<description>please visit site<![CDATA[Very clean 2005 Honda Civic DX(Value Package), Low miles â\x80\x93 31,300, Auto Trans, Blue,"

 

'\x80' is the euro symbol

I'm not sure what \x93 is but you can tell from the original code so you need to do a string replace i.e.

 

$bad=array("\x80","\x93");
$good=array("€","?????");
$xml=str_replace($bad,$good,$xml);

 

Also "please visit site" needs to be inside the cdata tags.