Figleaves datafeed

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Hi all,
We're changing the system our datafeeds are produced and we will be looking closely at how our products are mapped and categorised.
I would therefore greatly appreciate if you could email me with any problems that you've spotted using the feed in your sites, both general and categorisation problems.
Helps us to provide you with an improved feed :-)

Thanks so much

[Rich]

I've just spotted one problem with the feed. In the CSV feed extra columns are listed as a semicolon separted list of colon separated property:value pairs e.g.

colour: Black,Wonder Blue; largeImageURL: http://images.figleaves.com/uk/image...DY-431431.jpg; manufacturer: DKNY; size: Large,Medium,Small

This works well, but unfortunately breaks down for products by Rigby & Peller. The & is getting encoded twice, changing it to & e.g.

colour: Diamond (White),Pearl (White/Gold); largeImageURL: http://images.figleaves.com/uk/image...AP-RP1275.jpg; manufacturer: Rigby & Peller; size: Large,Medium,Small,Xlarge,XSmall

The extra semicolon's make my script fail to separate these fields correctly, which would be easy to fix, but would still leave the brand displayed as Rigby & Peller. As &'s elsewhere in the file (product names and descriptons) aren't encoded, I don't think the should be in these extra fields, and definately shouldn't be encoded twice.

Same applies for other names with & in them (e.g Zack & Zula, D&G, Dolce & Gabbana Beachwear, etc) and a similar issue with names with an ' in them (e.g. B'Ware by Ballet changed to B'Ware by Ballet)

I hope this is of some use and expect its an error at TD that hopefully they will be able to fix quickly.