[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase failing on icon src path containing "="

[Philipp Hahn]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:01:40PM -0400, Matthew Parris wrote:
> When running the following command
> 
> /opt/mythtv-0.27.4/bin/mythfilldatabase --loglevel debug --file --sourceid
> 1 --xmlfile ./xmltv.xml
> 
> 
> I get this error in the output of mythfilldatabase:
> 
> Error in 404:183: error occurred while parsing reference
> 
> 
> When I go to this location in the xmltv.xml file I find:
> 
> <icon src="http://...&w=267&h=150"" />
> 
> 
> where the 183'rd character is the equals sign.  Does this sound like a bug
> that should be filed or could it be a character encoding issue?

In XML '<', '>', '&' are special and must be esacped as "<", ">"
and "&".
Who ever created yout xmltv.xml did it NOT.

Complain to how ever generated that file.

Sincerely
Philipp