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John W Kennedy
Mar 3, 2012, 6:12:39 PM3/3/12
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I realize that Atom isn't XML as such, but I can't find an Atom or RSS
group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this ,
on Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator,
and the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm
seeing really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
Anybody have, if not an idea of what's wrong, at least an idea of where
I can go to ask?
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>http://john-w-kennedy.name/news</id>
<link rel="self" href="http://john-w-kennedy.name/news/jwkennedy.atom"/>
<title>John W. Kennedy website news</title>
<author><name>John W. Kennedy</name></author>
<updated>2012-03-02T02:02:19Z</updated>
<entry>
<id>http://john-w-kennedy.name/news/news0002</id>
<author><name>John W. Kennedy</name></author>
<published>2005-01-01T17:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2005-01-01T12:00:00Z</updated>
<title>Double Falshood page moved</title>
<link href="news0002.php"/>
<content type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>The <cite>Double Falshood</cite> main page has moved
from <a
href="/Double%20Falshood.html">http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood.html</a>
to <a
href="/Double%20Falshood/index.html">http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html</a>.
Please update your bookmarks.</p>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
on Safari yields:
The Double Falshoodmain page has moved from
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood.htmlto
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html. Please
update your bookmarks.
--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this ,
on Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator,
and the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm
seeing really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
Anybody have, if not an idea of what's wrong, at least an idea of where
I can go to ask?
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>http://john-w-kennedy.name/news</id>
<link rel="self" href="http://john-w-kennedy.name/news/jwkennedy.atom"/>
<title>John W. Kennedy website news</title>
<author><name>John W. Kennedy</name></author>
<updated>2012-03-02T02:02:19Z</updated>
<entry>
<id>http://john-w-kennedy.name/news/news0002</id>
<author><name>John W. Kennedy</name></author>
<published>2005-01-01T17:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2005-01-01T12:00:00Z</updated>
<title>Double Falshood page moved</title>
<link href="news0002.php"/>
<content type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>The <cite>Double Falshood</cite> main page has moved
from <a
href="/Double%20Falshood.html">http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood.html</a>
to <a
href="/Double%20Falshood/index.html">http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html</a>.
Please update your bookmarks.</p>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
on Safari yields:
The Double Falshoodmain page has moved from
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood.htmlto
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html. Please
update your bookmarks.
--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
Martin Honnen
Mar 4, 2012, 10:32:13 AM3/4/12
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John W Kennedy wrote:
> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such, but I can't find an Atom or RSS
> group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
> looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this , on
> Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator, and
> the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
> spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm seeing
> really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
> kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
Can you post a URL of the feed?
> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such, but I can't find an Atom or RSS
> group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
> looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this , on
> Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator, and
> the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
> spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm seeing
> really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
> kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
--
Martin Honnen --- MVP Data Platform Development
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
John W Kennedy
Mar 5, 2012, 12:52:31 AM3/5/12
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On 2012-03-04 15:32:13 +0000, Martin Honnen said:
> John W Kennedy wrote:
>> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such, but I can't find an Atom or RSS
>> group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
>> looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this , on
>> Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator, and
>> the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
>> spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm seeing
>> really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
>> kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
>
> Can you post a URL of the feed?
At the moment, the only URL that can reach it begins
> John W Kennedy wrote:
>> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such, but I can't find an Atom or RSS
>> group anywhere. I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it
>> looks good on Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this , on
>> Safari and Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator, and
>> the missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
>> spurious spaces definitely aren't. I've established that what I'm seeing
>> really is corruption in the displayed text, not artifacts of bad
>> kerning. Latest versions of all relevant software.
>
> Can you post a URL of the feed?
"http://localhost". The website it's supposed to go on is mysteriously
stuck in the purchasing process.
I've put a copy at http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/news/jwkennedy.atom
However, I should add that I've revised my program (fortunately I used
my own SGML/XML-building library, so I could freely revise it, too) to
produce Atom with an escaped-HTML payload instead of XHTML, and that
works fine. Apparently I've discovered bugs in both Safari and Opera,
whereby XHTML payloads in Atom simply break. I'll be glad if you can
prove me wrong, though -- if you can find my error. The test copy I've
uploaded to the prserv website is the XHTML version.
Peter Flynn
Apr 7, 2012, 5:20:37 PM4/7/12
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On 03/03/12 23:12, John W Kennedy wrote:
> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such,
Atom is XML. What makes you think otherwise?
> I realize that Atom isn't XML as such,
> I'm producing an Atom feed with XHTML content, and it looks good on
> Firefox, but comes out looking likethis, or else this , on Safari and
> Opera. The Atom file validates on the W3C Atom validator, and the
> missing spaces are definitely in the embedded XHTML, while the
> spurious spaces definitely aren't.
///Peter
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