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pluralpunk
Member
Oct 31, 2009, 8:21 PM

I have WordPress 2.0 for iPhone and it gives me the error message when trying to connect to my WordPress hosted blog (pluralpunk.wordpress.com).

Any way I can fix this?
jb6262
Moderator
Nov 3, 2009, 7:13 PM

This resolves to a character that is illegal in XML coming through to the app via XMLRPC. I saw once that illegal characters were showing up in comments and so the app was having trouble loading comments but you could see the posts and pages...

I'm pretty sure it would work the same way if you had illegal characters in Posts or pages...

Trick is to identify and remove those...

The troubleshooting process can involve creating the appropriate xmlrpc call in an "http client" type sofware, grabbing the returned xml and running it through a validator..

Ideally, the app shouldn't choke on illegal characters, or the core shouldn't send them and we're looking at how to fix this, but the workaround is all there is until the fix is into code...
pluralpunk
Member
Nov 8, 2009, 4:17 AM

What are illegal characters?
jb6262
Moderator
Nov 11, 2009, 8:44 PM

There are some characters that someone could type (into a comment for example) that are "not legal" as far as XML is concerned. The WP core tries to catch these, but it appears at least one slips through...

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