XOOPS WhatsNew Module

HTML Entity

HTML entity like as © or © has restricted use in W3C,
in order to be dependent on WEB browser.
( © and © are also expresses copyright sign © )

the following results having become, when checking at FEED Validator of W3C.

  RSS RDF ATOM
title title x title x title #
summary description o description o summary #
module name category o dc:subject o dc:subject o

o usable x unusable
# specify type="text/html"

Form of HTML entity

The result when setting four form as title tag
  result of FEED Validator PHP parser (*)
  RSS RDF ATOM W3C
&#169: o o o recomended x Garbled characters
&#169: x x o   o  
© x x x   x parse error
© x x o recomended o  

* based on XML parser function of PHP

In Microsoft IE browser and Firefox browser,
It seems that neither of the form becomes an error.

Implemention

It implement as the following,
in consideration of result of W3C and PHP parser.
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title title x title x title o
summary description o description o summary o
module name category o dc:subject o dc:subject o

o means that HTML entity is changed to form like &#169 or © .
x means that HTML entity is deleted.

it was used as following, since the escape as specification,
& < > " '

Specification

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0

$Id: entity.html,v 1.3 2005/10/22 08:25:19 ohwada Exp $
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