Wordpress RSS feed XML parsing error...

by Alan Mater

Posted: 16 years ago 10 replies

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Hi everyone,

My rss feed located at Work From Home Blog is not working and generates this error...

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: Work From Home Blog
Line Number 1, Column 5: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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When trying to submit the feed to FeedBurner, this message comes up...

The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 1: The processing instruction target
matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

Could anyone help me figure out what the problem might be. I have had some help from fellow Warrior Jeff "Houdy" but is not able to pinpoint the problem.

Any help would be appreciated as I really need to get this working.

Thanks!

Alan

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rwil02 16 years ago

Line Number 1, Column 5: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

 is not valid. (you have an unclosed root node containing the definition for the document)
The first line should be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Line 1 column 5. <?xml char 5 tells you it was trying to process the <?xml bit, so the problem had to be there or earlier.
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Alan Mater 16 years ago

Hi Roger,

Thanks for your quick reply. How do I go about changing it so that it doesn't have the tag? I haven't been able to figure it out.

Thanks,

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rwil02

16 years ago

My guess is you have cusomized your feed template (wp-rss2.php) much as is described here:
Customizing Feeds WordPress Codex

and you have probably either put the br at the top, or left a blank line which has been auto converted into a br tag

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Alan Mater

16 years ago

Originally Posted by rwil02

The problem is I had someone install the blog for me, and he customized the feed. He couldn't find the problem. I don't know how to edit the feed template as far as what to delete or change.

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rwil02

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Alan Mater

The problem is I had someone install the blog for me, and he customized the feed. He couldn't find the problem. I don't know how to edit the feed template as far as what to delete or change.

Can you find and send me the file?
If so I can probably fix it for you.
Alternatively, if you trust me, you can PM me FTP login details and I can take a look.

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Alan Mater 16 years ago

Originally Posted by rwil02

Can you find and send me the file?
If so I can probably fix it for you.
Alternatively, if you trust me, you can PM me FTP login details and I can take a look.

Do you know which file you need? There's one called /xmlrpc.php. Would that be the one? If you're not sure I'll send you a PM with my details.

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rwil02 16 years ago

wp-rss2.php
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Alan Mater 16 years ago

Here's the code...

<?php
/**
* Outputs the RSS2 feed XML format using the feed-rss2.php file in wp-includes
* folder. This file only sets the feed format and includes the feed-rss2.php.
*
* This file is no longer used in WordPress and while it is not deprecated now.
* This file will most likely be deprecated or removed in a later version.
*
* The link for the rss2 feed is /index.php?feed=rss2 with permalinks off.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

if (empty($wp)) {
require_once('./wp-load.php');
wp('feed=rss2');
}

require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed-rss2.php');

?>
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rwil02 16 years ago

Sorry, mixed up two threads.
I should have said "feed-rss2.php", which is in the includes directory.
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rwil02 16 years ago

Oh. And please PM it to me as an attachment (.txt file) that way the formatting won't break.
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