category alias with wrong encoding

[mtk]

Hi,
with J!1.5, when using title alias for the category, it becomes part of its articles links.
Although it is built correctly by JRoute, it is NOT encoded correctly in the XML - generating a parse error in Google...

[guilleva]

Thanks mtk, can you please provide more detail or an example of this?

Thanks again.

[mtk]

easy:
take a category you are showing in one of the menus (blog or table layout). change the category alis to something not in latin encoding (i.e ?????)

check the sitemap generated inside the site - OK
check the XML generated - U'll see some encoding issues.
(google won't read it, but the links work - Joomla understands them)

[guilleva]

Can you please post the error reported by Google?

Thanks

[mtk]

As soon as Google will process the Sitemap again

[mtk]

sorry for the delay.
Here is the spoken sitemap: http://www.ebay-israel-expert.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml&no_html=1
Google response is:

Parsing error (line 11)
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.

line 11, on the source of the XML Sitemap is:

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<loc>http://www.ebay-israel-expert.com/&#215;&#164;&#215;&#170;&#215;?&#215;?&#215;&#170;%20&#215;?&#215;&#160;&#215;?&#215;&#170;%20&#215;?&#215;?&#215;?&#215;?&#215;?.html</loc>


[vic]

I can confirm this issue too.

Check my site (J1.5, Hebrew language):
http://www.i-law.co.il/component/option,com_xmap/lang,en/no_html,1/sitemap,1/view,xml/

Example:

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<loc>http://www.i-law.co.il/×?×?ש×?ת/פ×?× ×?×?×?/</loc>

[mtk]

OK,
I got MyBlog component installed on a J!1.0 site.

I created a plugin for XMAP to work with MyBlog, which generates links to bloogrs:

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index.php?option=com_myblog&blooger=MY_NAME

MY_NAME is in a non-Latin language (Hebrew).


the HTML view of the sitemap show the correct links, but the XML cannot be read by Google.
it is the same issue...


I'd say something in the creation of the XML is altering the encoding...

[mtk]

OK, I don't know if that fixes all related issues, but it does fix the problems presented at the first silte: www.ebay-israel-expert.com (category alias) & pn the blogger links of MyBlog: www.datecafe.co.il


the fix is just to remove the escaping call in:
component/com_xmap/xmap.xml.php (line 33)

[vic]

I have the xmap 1.1 for J1.5, so your work around not help me.

Any suggestion ?

Thanks.