I have product feed like that
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0" version="2.0">
<channel>
<name>name</name>
<description>description</description>
<link>link</link>
<item>
<g:id>27</g:id>
<g:title>title</g:title>
<g:description>description</g:description>
<g:link>link</g:link>
<g:image_link>image_link</g:image_link>
<g:availability>in_stock</g:availability>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:price>price</g:price>
<g:brand>brand</g:brand>
<g:gtin>gtin</g:gtin>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
generated by php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->encoding = 'utf-8';
$dom->xmlVersion = '1.0';
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$root = $dom->createElement('rss');
$channel = $dom->createElement('channel');
//adding products
$root->setAttribute('xmlns:g', "http://base.google.com/ns/1.0");
$root->setAttribute('version', "2.0");
$root->appendChild($channel);
$dom->appendChild($root);
$dom->save($file_name);
$xml = file_get_contents($file_name);
$xml = trim($xml);
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print($xml);
field ‘g:description’ may contain symbols like É — ’ ®
and when GMS tries to process the feed, I get an error “Error parsing/validating XML feed”
but <p> does not cause an error
How can i fix it?
I tried to set the encoding manually to UTF-8 in the GMS feed tab settings but it got worse