Question

I am having a problem with our RSS feed displaying correctly in Safari but not in Firefox.
A sample is shown below. The issue is in the <title> tag under <pubdate>. The ó shows correctly in Safari but is spelled out in Firefox. Has anyone encountered this problem?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/rss/styles/shared_xsl_stylesheet_v2.xml"?>
<rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
   <title>Updates: What's New on The Website</title>
   <link>http://www.site.com/news/whatsnew/wn-today.shtml</link>
   <description>The latest events, developments, and updates to the website</description>
   <language>en-us</language>

   <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:58:18 EDT</pubDate>
   <lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:41:00 EDT</lastBuildDate>
   <item>
     <title>Pronunciamiento de la Presidenta de la Comisi&oacute;n de Valores y Bolsa</title>
     <link>http://www.site.com/divisions/corpfin/cfnew/cfnew0909.shtml</link>
     <description>Pronouncements</description>

     <guid isPermaLink="false">2009-09-09-000115</guid>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
  </item>
</channel>

Edited to show the above as code. 🙂

Answer 1

ó is valid in UTF-8 encoded documents. The problem is that you reference &oacute; but the entity needs to be defined in a DTD somewhere because the default DTD doesn’t define it because ó is valid in UTF-8 encoded XML.

Check out the W3C’s Validator.