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1. InfoCynic
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   Posted 6 years ago #

   I wrote a post on my blog yesterday (ironically about how to use RSS!) that included an & character. I put it in the title as & just to be safe. Turns out the blog also didn't like the : I put in the post when it came time to make a permalink. Anyway, I have since taken both the & and the : out of the title AND the post slug, but trying to get my RSS gives

   XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
   Location: http://infocynic.opennet.us/feed/
   Line Number 24, Column 80:

   <guid isPermaLink="false">http://infocynic.opennet.us/2006/04/10/Technology & You: RSS/</guid>

   Col. 80 is of course, the &. How do I get the feed to update to use the new post slug and therefore the new permalink?

   Blog URL is http://infocynic.opennet.us

   Edit: I tried upating the permalinks, and that didn't fix it.

2. InfoCynic
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Well, I 'fixed' the problem by editing the database. The GUID for that post was never changed. This might be a bug that change the post slug after post creation does not update the GUID. It might also be a bug that GUIDs are not being escaped properly. I'm feeling a little sick at the moment or I'd dig more, but at least this might give developers somewhere to look.

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