User names with '&' [closed]

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 04 August 05 3:27 pm

Just tried out the new site features - great stuff! In an introspective moment, we tried out the rss links and the google earth file for ourselves ... and things promptly turned to custard

Suspect it's got something to do with the '&' in our user name -

- clicking on the rss feed link gives the error Whitespace is not allowed at this location. Error processing resource 'http://geocaching.com.au/xml/cacher/Slider+%26+Smurf...
- clicking on the google earth link gives the error Open of file "C:DesktopSlider+&+Smur.kml" failed: Parse error: Parse error: Unexpected entity name for reference at line: 4 at line: 4

Other user links also seem to be broken - the 'popularity' and 'hitlist' links don't have anything after the equals sign. Is this fixable?

Thanks guys.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 04 August 05 10:58 pm

oops we forgot to account for ampersands in the title of rss and kml feeds. we've fixed them and they seem to work now

we fixed the popularity and hitlist links so they include your encoded cacher name, however the links don't work anyway so we have temporarily removed them to reduce confusion for other members. we plan to get that working in the next couple of weeks

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 05 August 05 8:49 am

Can you account for fullstops at the end of names too?

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 05 August 05 9:00 am

we thought that that was working
if it's not, can you please let us know more details

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 05 August 05 9:26 pm

I just tried the Google Earth link and it is indeed now working. Thanks!

The rss feed link (on the My page) opens a new browser window with

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

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<rss version="0.91">
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<channel>
<title>Damo.'s cache logs</title>
<description>Damo.'s cache logs from Geocaching Australia</description>

etc etc.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 06 August 05 1:04 am

you need to open it with an RSS reader or open it in your browser as an RSS file

is there anyone who is willing to write up a bit about RSS in the wiki? thanks!

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 06 August 05 11:55 am

ideology wrote:oops we forgot to account for ampersands in the title of rss and kml feeds. we've fixed them and they seem to work now

we fixed the popularity and hitlist links so they include your encoded cacher name, however the links don't work anyway so we have temporarily removed them to reduce confusion for other members. we plan to get that working in the next couple of weeks

Checked serviceable from our end - thanks for the prompt response!