authcode
19-05-07, 19:04
Now my site is functional I've been looking at cleaning up the html and validating my pages but I'm having an absolute nightmare with special characters in the datafeed. There seems to be three approaches merchants have taken:
1) convert all special characters to entities
2) convert no special characters to entities
3) convert some special characters to entities
The favourite seems to be encoding ampersands using & but nothing else.
Can whoever's looking into data quality bring this issue up with merchants?
It would also be good to get the official line on datafeed specs - what are the standards the merchants are being asked to work to? Posting them here would be very helpful in planning for the future.
1) convert all special characters to entities
2) convert no special characters to entities
3) convert some special characters to entities
The favourite seems to be encoding ampersands using & but nothing else.
Can whoever's looking into data quality bring this issue up with merchants?
It would also be good to get the official line on datafeed specs - what are the standards the merchants are being asked to work to? Posting them here would be very helpful in planning for the future.