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1. Grubbyseismic
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   Posted 12 months ago #

   I've come across a problem getting my markup to validate (I'm picky about such things).

   Basically, the call to wp_head(); in my HEADER.PHP introduces the line <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="My Blogname &raquo; Search Results for “query1 query2” Feed" href="http://myURL/?s=query1+query2&feed=rss2" /> into the header.

   Fair enough, that's what it's meant to do.

   Unfortunately, I can't encode the ampersand given in the output, this throws a markup-validation error.

   I've tried searching the boards, the nearest relative issue was from 6 years ago and never resolved (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_head-creates-invalid-markup).

   I've tried using esc_attr, esc_html and their alternatives / derivatives, directly accessing the output and encoding a variable. Nothing works.

   In the end I've have had to remove_action in FUNCTIONS.PHP. Not an ideal solution, as my client may ask for RSS-related links in the future (although I have set a workaround).

   Any ideas?...

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