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Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points

May 05, 2010 @ 10:35

Anyone Else Getting XML Entity Error?

Seems this is a problem with the Twitter XML? Two sites both using the twitter plugin get this error

An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 207, position 68.Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details: System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 207, position 68.

Source Error: 

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace: 

[XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 207, position 68.]
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) +95
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEntityName() +168
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributeValueSlow(Int32 curPos, Char quoteChar, NodeData attr) +5031894
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes() +916
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement() +378
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() +199
   System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) +229
   System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc) +61
   System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) +134
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.XmlDataSource.PopulateXmlDocument(XmlDocument document, CacheDependency& dataCacheDependency, CacheDependency& transformCacheDependency) +376
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.XmlDataSource.GetXmlDocument() +205
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.XmlDataSourceView.ExecuteSelect(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments) +38
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.CreateControlHierarchy(Boolean useDataSource) +255
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) +68
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.EnsureDataBound() +65
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +20
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +108
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +224
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3394

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

May 05, 2010 @ 10:41

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Hey Lee, what are the Twitter usernames (or RSS feeds?) Any clues in the XML of the feed?

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Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points

May 05, 2010 @ 10:49

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This account is throwing the error?

http://twitter.com/armcom

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14953057.rss

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

May 05, 2010 @ 11:29

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Hi Lee, it's the URL for Google (source link) in the last tweet/item. It contains an unescaped ampersand &, which has invalided the XML document.

Either Google or Twitter should encode their XML entities properly.

For now, only thing I can think of is either reduce the number of tweets by 1 (so the last one drops off), or do some new tweets (so the last one drops off) ... after that, don't tweet from Google (until they've sorted this out).

OR ... write some RegEx-based RSS parser? (Which is a truly awful idea!) ;-P

Cheers, Lee.

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Lee 1130 posts 3088 karma points

May 05, 2010 @ 17:20

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Hmmm well thats strange? Its been like that for ages, so something must have changed with Twitter as it has been fine for months :S

Thanks fella for the tip though :)

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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

May 06, 2010 @ 09:34

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Wow.
Only seen this thread in my RSS reader this morning and it looks like it has kinda been solved already.
Do I need to do any fixes to my codebase or not?

Warren :)

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

May 06, 2010 @ 11:02

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@Warren, no problem - happy to help. It's not your code, no need to worry.

@Lee, just want to confirm which package you are using... Warren's Twitter for Umbraco or your own Simple Tweets? As I believe Warren's code is using the Twitter API XML and yours is using the RSS feed ... and as far as I can tell, this entity name issue should only effect the RSS feed ... if that makes sense?

Cheers, Lee.

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