[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7131: Dashboard: unescaped & which should be written as &

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#7131: Dashboard: unescaped & which should be written as &
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 Reporter:  hakre    |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.5.2    
Component:  General  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 Titels of aggregated RSS Feeds are not properly output to the Browser. If
 they containt the "&" Char for example, it is not written as "&".

 Tidy Reports: "unescaped & which should be written as &"

 I was not able to reproduce with 2.6 bleeding2, when using the same feed,
 the <span class="post"> elements to not contain the text. only the <cite>
 tags are left.

 Looks like a bad made fix.


 More Infos:
  Cause:

 The ampersand ("&") is a special character in HTML. It marks the beginning
 of a entity, like "&nbsp" for a non-breaking space.

 In XHTML, a entity must also end with a semicolon (";"). For example
 "&nbsp;"

 Because this is so, any time a literal ampersand appears in a document, it
 needs to be written as a character entity, "&amp;". Ampersands commonly
 appear in the query string of a URL, and need to be expressed as an entity
 there.
 Example - Normal Ampersand:
 Good    Smith & son
 Good    Smith &amp; son
 Example - Ampersand in a Query String:
 Good    <a href="http://www.domain.com/cgi?x=1&y=2">query string</a>
 Good    <a href="http://www.domain.com/cgi?x=1&amp;y=2">query string</a>
 Solution:

 Please replace "&" with "&amp;".
 References:

     * W3C entities: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
     * WDG : http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/
     * Very interesting :
 http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/formgetbyurl.html

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