Invalid characters in dc:creator

[RasmusMalver]

Problem

Recently an increasing number of feeds are using invalid characters in the dc:creator tag. Specifically when the author has a non-English name, e.g. Stéphanie. Somewhere in the creation of the feed, a poorly written app translates this to <dc:creator>St&eacute;phanie</dc:creator>.

Unfortunately this renders the entire XML document invalid, and SimplePie can't handle it, before the one post with one invalid tag is pushed from the feed.

Proposed solution

I know the problem is caused by a third party using bad software, but could we not make a fall-back for SimplePie, where it tries to html_entities_decode() the contents of the guilty tag, before collapsing?

Has anybody tried a quick-fix? E.g. stripping tags from feeds, before serving them to SimplePie?

Error code

This XML document () is invalid, likely due to invalid characters. XML error: not well-formed (invalid token)

To replicate

Try parsing http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ikeahacker

[Alkarex]

Could you please give a try to #400 ?

[mblaney]

hi @rasmis this looks ok to me now, please try again with the latest version.