I’m using Zapier to automatically post new topics on a Facebook page and I noticed that for last few days, the feeds (i.e. /latest.rss) aren’t posted anymore. The error that Zapier throws me is this: The last error message was "mismatched tag: line 546, column 2". What’s on line 546? This: 542| <s…

Will be fixed soon :strawberry: https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/a4708d78382a206f5ff9d39cf5cb76b812d7fbb0

Hmm, can you check into the RSS feed issue on meta @techapj and see if it repros? maybe use a feed validator on a few different pages to make sure everything is OK on latest.

I checked RSS feed for meta’s latest page and different category pages and they all are valid. (validated via http://www.feedvalidator.org/ )

Sounds like this is specific to some post on your site then, @iamntz

Any ideas on how i could debug this? http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevforum.ro%2Flatest.rss

[image] codinghorror: Sounds like this is specific to some post Yes. it is because the post has <![CDATA[ … ]]> in it. Use CDATA in RSS Feed to add HTML and links | Amit Tech Lab - PHP, AJAX, CakePHP,WordPress, Symfony, Drupal, codeIgnitier This results in something like <description><![CD…

Alright, but what can I do about this? There is anything in the admin area that I didn’t saw? It’s a bug? Thanks!

[image] Mittineague: The validator / parser doesn’t do nested CDATA well. Is nested CDATA valid? Perhaps it’s a validator bug. [image] iamntz: Alright, but what can I do about this? I can think of a few things: Don’t use nested CDATA. Determine whether nested CDATA is valid, an…

[image] iamntz: It’s a bug? I wouldn’t call it a bug, but more an edge case. [image] mpalmer: Is nested CDATA valid? No 2.7 CDATA Sections - Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) [Definition: CDATA sections may occur anywhere character data may occur; they…

Let’s try to embed the faulty url :slight_smile: [image] JetBrains Rider Early Access Program is now public | The .NET Tools Blog Back in January, we announced Project Rider. In March, we started the private Early Access Program. Today, we're very excited to announce that the Rider EAP …

[image] iamntz: PS: not valid anymore Well, yes. It has already been established that it can be broken. I’m more interested in your ideas about how to fix things so it won’t break.

Post with CDATA block produces invalid RSS feed?

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) November 27, 2016, 5:20pm 15

I remember fixing this issue via:

https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/1b8bef8f96a4353cdfa6bc67da87d6750d5d31bf

It was previously reported here:

This is a recent regression.

cc @zogstrip

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