Invalid XML Entities included in metadata file

[Roger Bell_West]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 06:17:23PM +0000, Ian W Taylor wrote:
>I think the problem is that get_iplayer uses HTML encode_entities()
>and there are about 250 entities defined in HTML but only 5 in the
>XML specification.  I've read that XML just defines " &
>' < and > for the "&'<> characters.  However the generic
>metadata XML file includes things like £ for the British? Pound
>sign in the description nodes.

I've had this problem too, and would like not to have to sanitise the
XML before reading it.

>Perhaps the problem is that a DTD used to be obtained from web site
>named in the 2nd line of the XML, but is no longer available ?
><program_meta_data
>xmlns="http://linuxcentre.net/xmlstuff/get_iplayer" revision="1">

No, nothing specifically has to be at that URL; it's just a unique
identifier for the namespace.

R