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Geek Culture / Forum RSS feed (Question for Rich)

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th May 2006 11:50
Rich - how often is the RSS feed updated for this forum? I want to setup a feed updater as a cron job for my site and I dont want to excessively hit your site (eg, no point my site updatating every 10 minutes if yours only updates every 30).

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indi
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Posted: 27th May 2006 14:28
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th May 2006 14:51
It's real-time. Set your cron job to refresh whenever you like.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th May 2006 15:18
@indi - What the....?
@Rich: Thanks!

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th May 2006 17:42
Rich - I'm using the Drupal Aggregator to get your feeds. The problem is, I'm regualrly getting this error:
Quote: " The RSS-feed from TGC Forum seems to be broken, due to an error "XML_ERR_NAME_REQUIRED" on line 112."


That line currently is:


Could the aggregator be having trouble with the ampersand symbol?

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JerBil
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Posted: 27th May 2006 19:52
With a stand alone reader I get this:


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Posted: 27th May 2006 20:40 Edited at: 27th May 2006 20:43
In my experience, any app which is strict about its XML (or even XHTML) throws a fit at unescaped ampersands.

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While you're at it, Double quotes should be escaped too.

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And by escaped, I mean using the &quot type notation.
Interestingly enough, I had to type & amp; quot (no spaces) then to get that to work. Because typing in & quot (no spaces) just gave me a double quote mark

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