More broken XML generated by blogging tools

2004-04-30T17:08:20Z 2004-04-30T17:08:20Z More broken XML generated by blogging tools 2004-05-01T01:14:27Z

First it was <a href="http://blog.lordsutch.com/?entryid=1340" title="XML legality question">Movable Type</a> doing it… now, <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> generates differently but equally-broken XML for its inline trackback RDF discovery. Here’s an example: <pre> <code> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://xrlq.com/archives/2004/04/30/1475/hat-of-the-day-chip-frederick/" dc:identifier="http://xrlq.com/archives/2004/04/30/1475/hat-of-the-day-chip-frederick/" dc:title="\'Hat of the Day: Chip Frederick" trackback:ping="http://xrlq.com/wp-trackback.php/1475" /> </rdf:RDF></code> </pre> Backslashes don’t escape anything in XML… Update: Per the trackback below, WordPress fixed it! So, the current score is: WP 1, MT 0. (So, my message to all you WordPress bloggers over there on the sidebar: get thee to an update.) http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/1562 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=1562