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Hi guys,
I'm trying to send an event feed to simplepie to list in a widget.
Using Wordpress and Civicrm 4.2.0

It's not showing up.  Trying to render the RSS in Firefox gives this error:

NOTE: I had to put in some asterisks to let me post a link.

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http*://stjames.prophetech.net/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/ical&reset=1&list=1&rss=1
Line Number 27, Column 1:<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="St James Church &raquo; Feed" href="http*://stjames.prophetech.net/feed/" />

and in Chrome:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 27 at column 89: Entity 'raquo' not defined

I'm no coder - but it looks to me as if the second quote isn't being rendered in the output?

Cheers,
Hamish

this problem is a bug with the Civi + WP integration and affects a few urls.

There are a few cases where Civi needs to send a complete document and ignore any theme/template from WP.

We dont have a solution for this as yet, so if you can help debug and figure out how other WP extensions handle this that would be great.

in the below case specifically, civi sends the entire iCal document. the WP html should be suppressed

lobo

NOTE: &acirc is some kind of encoding problem. civi is UTF-8 hard coded all over the place and some other encoding is producing the &acirc
The &acirc in the event description breaks the feed.

So is the above case where it should return an rss feed, is the problem:
a) civicrm isn't returning a valid RSS file (html error). 
or
b) civicrm is providing a proper RSS file, but it is being intercepted by WP that's where the error occurs.

So every now and then I have a poke around to see if I can get a clue as to what is causing this error.  I'm out of my depth!

But... The undefined entity error for xml is caused by using characters not allowed in xml.

& is one of those illegal characters, while (&amp;) and {&#38;) are allowed.

The link being passed looks like this:
wordpress.demo.civicrm.org/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/ical&p=11&reset=1&id=1

But is actually this:
http://stjames.prophetech.net/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/ical&amp;reset=1&amp;list=1&amp;rss=1

See the one "&" in CiviCRM&q=civicrm?

Could this be the issue?

Looking in util/iCalendar.php there is a function to replace unsafe strings like this:
$text = str_replace(";", "\;", $text);

If this is the problem, would I write a rule like this:
$text = str_replace("&","&amp", $text); or would that strip lots of "&"'s?

If I'm way off let me know...  like I said I have no idea what I'm doing...

Not sure if I went about this the right way but I got things working for my needs related to this issue. I wrote down what I did to strip the html code and get rid of the XML parse error (a bandaid as I didn't want to hunt down the source of the XML). Hmm, asterisks to allow link

*http://tummel.me/broken-feeds-civicrm-and-wordpress/*