Putting together an RSS Feed. Having a problem with certain characters like ", -, ' (not the commas). I have no idea why? This is the error I get:
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<title>AN END TO DUAL CAUSES OF ACTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR DISMISSALS
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<title>Firm News - Bowman Gilfillan</title>
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<category>Law</category>
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<title>AN END TO DUAL CAUSES OF ACTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR DISMISSALS – NADIRA DEONARAIN & REGHANA TULK</title>
<description>The protective ambit of the now repealed 1956 Labour Relations Act (“the 1956 LRA”) did not extend to State employees. Separate legislation governed the employment relationship between the State and its workforce, the terms of which were not as favourable as the protection extended to employees covered by the 1956 LRA. In an effort to supplement the rights of State employees, our Courts have held that the public character of State employers rendered the decision to dismiss an exercise of public power, thus bringing it within the ambit of administrative law. Dismissed State employees also had a cause of action under labour law. In effect then, State employees enjoyed a dual cause of action upon dismissal. </description>
<pubDate>4/17/2008</pubDate>
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<title>A JOINT EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP? – NADIRA DEONARAIN</title>
<description>The tripartite relationship
Our law recognises the concept of a temporary employment service (“TES”). Section 198 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (“the LRA”) provides, in relevant part, as follows:
</description>
<pubDate>4/17/2008</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING VS EXECUTION AGAINST IMMOVABLE PROPERTY: THE CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE – SALLY D’ARCYDONNELLY</title>
<description>Every person has the right of access to adequate housing. It is the duty of the State to take reasonable legislative and other measures to achieve the progressive realisation of this right. This is according to Section 26 of the Constitution.</description>
<pubDate>4/17/2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>DEALING WITH MEDICAL SCHEMES’ RESERVES IN CORPORATE DISPOSALS DAVID GERAL</title>
<description>Corporate disposals and unbundlings do not pose significant legal difficulties where the medical schemes providing the services to the companies involved are open, public schemes. When one of the schemes is a private scheme whose membership is defined as the employees within that particular group, legal difficulties can arise. </description>
<pubDate>4/17/2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>WHEN A PARENT IS PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR FAILING TO SUPERVISE A CHILD – PUMZO MBANA</title>
<description>One Saturday morning, Albert Wessels drove his father’s bakkie with four teenage passengers in the load bay. At the time, Albert was 16 years and 10 months old, and was an unlicensed driver. </description>
<pubDate>4/17/2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>THE RELEVANCE OF PRIOR TRADE MARK USE IN SOUTH AFRICAN COMMON LAW WIM ALBERTS</title>
<description>The nature of the right protected by the law relating to unlawful competition is the right to goodwill, although the right to a trade secret can also feature.</description>
<pubDate>4/9/2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>OFF DUTY MISCONDUCT – TO DISCIPLINE OR NOT TO DISCIPLINE – KAREN FULTON & EVA MUDELY</title>
<description>Generally, what an employee does after work hours is of no concern to his employer, who has no right to institute disciplinary proceedings against an employee unless it can be shown by the employer that it has some interest in the conduct of the employee outside the workplace.</description>
<pubDate>4/7/2008</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>LAND EXPROPRIATION DRAFT BILL BOUND TO SPARK LIVELY DEBATE YETUNDE ONAGORUWA AND RONEL STRAUGHAN</title>
<description>Public comment on the national government’s recentlydrafted Land Expropriation Bill is likely to spark lively debate, much of it heated and emotive.</description>
<pubDate>4/7/2008</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>ARTICLE 6: COMPANIES BILL: DEBENTURES KELEBOGILE MODISE</title>
<description>South Africa’s upcoming corporate law amendments effect sweeping changes to the legislation governing corporate finance in general, including the nature of debentures in particular.</description>
<pubDate>4/2/2008</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>LIMITATION CLAUSES IN AUDITORS’ SERVICE AGREEMENTS WITH PENSION FUNDS – DAVID GERAL</title>
<description>Consumers of services provided by auditors are accustomed to clauses in the standard service agreement limiting the auditors’ liability for certain services. Typically auditors’ standard service agreements provide that the maximum liability of the auditors in respect of services other than “statutory” audit services (described below) shall be limited to a multiple of the fees charged for those nonaudit services. </description>
<pubDate>3/27/2008</pubDate>
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I tried changing the encoding from UTF-8 to something else. It did run, but then the hyphens, quotes etc didnt display. All that displayed was an empty square.
Please let me know what is wrong with my XML and how I can fix it. Greatly appreciated!
EDIT: I forgot to add that I create this file dynamically with classic ASP and the file system object. Nothing fancy at all.
Gonna post up new thread...