[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9993: Rss and atom feeds are dropping some characters

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#9993: Rss and atom feeds are dropping some characters
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 Reporter:  pm24601                              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                 |  Review
Component:  Feeds                                |     Version:  2.7.1
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests needs-      |     Focuses:
  refresh needs-test-info                        |
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Comment (by redsweater):

 As I mentioned, I'm not sure it's worth fixing this after all these years.
 Anybody who would work on a fix would probably be able to create arbitrary
 XML-RPC requests for testing at will, so the steps to reproduce are:

 1. Establish a test blog e.g. at http://localhost:8889/
 2. POST to the http://localhost:8889/wp-xmlrpc.cgi endpoint with XML
 representing a new post request, where the title is "& > test <"
 3. Using a newsreader or curl, access the feed for the site:

 curl http://localhost:8889/feed/

 Expected: the text within <title></title> tag on the post in the feed
 should include a "<" character at the end.
 Actual: It's stripped.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9993#comment:35>
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