timeline RSS XML includes unescaped characters in author element

[brad@…]

In the RSS view of the timeline, less-than and greater-than signs in the author elements, e.g. as used in email addresses like:

John Doe <jdoe@…>

are not escaped. That can make the RSS XML unparseable and break the feed.

A concrete example:

$ curl -s "http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/timeline?changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&ticket_details=on&wiki=on&max=50&daysback=90&format=rss" | xmllint -
-:234: parser error : error parsing attribute name
     <author>Anduin Withers <awithers@anduin.com></author>
                                     ^
-:234: parser error : attributes construct error
     <author>Anduin Withers <awithers@anduin.com></author>
                                     ^
-:234: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag awithers line 234
     <author>Anduin Withers <awithers@anduin.com></author>

—Brad

[dbt@…]

Yes. This is currently happening to the trac timeline rss feed, see ​the feed validator

[Christian Boos]

See #1912 and #2290.