Editing access for syndicated feeds

[purpletigron]

Title
Editing access for syndicated feeds

Short, concise description of the idea
Several times each month, I see: [Error: Irreparable invalid markup in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] in a syndicated journal entry. Some mechanism is needed for rapidly correcting these entries.

Full description of the idea
See above.
An ordered

Comments

[ruakh]

Buggy entry no longer messes up numerous Friends pages

Sorry, how does it "mess up" people's friends pages? I don't consider a tasteful, textual error message in one entry to be "messing up" a friends page.

[purpletigron]

Firstly, you can't read the content, which is messy.

Secondly, I get as that entry on my Friends list a screenful of HTML code and content, with a scroll bar down the side.

[subbes]

I get the equivalent of an iframe when html is brtoken on syn entries. Sometimes the iframe-equivalent is so wide as to give me a horizontal scroll and you know, although it's a minor thing, it does irritate me because then I can't read the rest of my page easily.

I'll lay money there's a fix for the broken-html issue hiding somewhere in bugzilla or someone's mailbox. $5.

Prove me wrong, LJ.

[ruakh]

[...] [LiveJournal] should at least use HTML::Parser.

It does; it uses HTML::TokeParser, which is an interface to HTML::Parser.

[ruakh]

Ah. That problem seems to occur due to long strings of nonbreaking characters. The solution would be to apply something like the following:

s/\S{$wordlength,}/break_word($&,$wordlength)/eg;

to the final version (post-HTML-escaping) of the entry.