Pingbacks force RSS2 comment feeds to fail

[gfmorris]

Pingback'ing your own entries results in comments with an author of [blogname] » [entrytitle]. Unfortunately, » forces strict RSS2 interpreters to fail, rendering /comments/feed/rss2/ useless to folks using aggregators with strict interpreters.

[darkcanuck]

Just noticed the same issue - pingbacks are causing the RSS2 comments feed to fail on the "title" entry. Using SVN changeset 2472.

Same issue as bug #929, I believe: ​http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=929

[darkcanuck]

Fixed by wrapping <![CDATA[ ]]> tags around the content of item->title on line 52 of wp-commentsrss2.php.

Not sure if this is a valid approach, but feed now validates at FeedValidator.org

edited on: 03-22-05 19:28

[matt]

We now encode named entities into numeric ones.