tags appear in ProductName

Hi! Jen,

Thanks for your reply. It seems that those <b>&lt;/b> tags probably
aren't coming from merchant feeds, because where those tags appear
seems to depend on the keywords or brand names being queried on.
For example, when you search for keywords "Doom"
(http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch?appid=YahooDemo&;category=Video%20Games&query=Doom&;results=50)
and "Resurrection&quot;
(http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch?appid=YahooDemo&;category=Video%20Games&query=Resurrection&results=50)
in the "Video Games"; category. For the same product (catalog ID
1951108589), the first query returns:

<ProductName><b>Doom</b&gt; 3: Resurrection of Evil Xbox</ProductName&gt;

while the second query returns:

<ProductName>Doom 3: <b>Resurrection</b> of Evil Xbox</ProductName&gt;

This may be a nice feature to highlight the keywords being
searched for. It's not too much trouble for us. We can filter
out those tags by ourselves as long as we know this is the way
it is. But this is not mentioned in the spec and is different
from what it used to be several months ago. So it may just be
confusing to other people.

Meng

--- In yws-shopping%40yahoogroups.com">yws-shoppingyahoogroups.com, "jenfaenza" <jenfaenza...> wrote:
&gt;
> Hi Meng - The tags you are referring to are provided by our
> merchants in their product feed. This would explain why you may
> have seen them come and go -- it just depends on the merchant feed.
>;
> We did not anticipate partners would have any trouble parsing the
> XML since the tags are in the [CDATA] section (and they should be
> ignored by an XML parser). Are these tags causing problems in your
> implementation?
>
> Thanks,
&gt; Jen
>
> --- In yws-shopping%40yahoogroups.com">yws-shoppingyahoogroups.com, "Meng-You Yang" <myyang>
> wrote:
&gt; >
> > Jen and the team,
>; >
> > Some queries using "4168-Brand"; as refinements, for example,
> >
> > http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch?
> >
> appid=YahooDemo&class=catalogs&category=Televisions&amp;refinement=4168-
> > Brand=Sony&results=50
> >
> > have weird <b>&lt;/b> tags appearing around the brand names in
> > ProductName in the returned results:
> >
> > <ProductName>&lt;![CDATA[<b>Sony</b&gt; BRAVIA KDL-V32XBR1 Television]]
> > ></ProductName&gt;
> > <ProductName>&lt;![CDATA[<b>Sony</b&gt; KDL-40S2000 Television]]
> > ></ProductName&gt;
> > <ProductName>&lt;![CDATA[<b>Sony</b&gt; BRAVIA KDL-V40XBR1 Television]]
> > ></ProductName&gt;
> > ...
> >
> > We didn't see this problem several months ago, but recently we've
>; > seen this appear, disapper, re-appear, re-disappear... several
&gt; times.
&gt; > Can you look into this?! Thanks a lot for your help!
>; >
> >
> > Meng

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