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1. lambic
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   According to feedvalidator.org, my rss feed is broken. I have no idea where to look to fix it, any help?
   Here's what it says:
   * line 3, column 0: XML Parsing error: <unknown>:3:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   Source: http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/feed/rss2/
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   3. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   4. <!-- generator="wordpress/1.3-alpha-4" -->
   5. <rss version="2.0"
   6. xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
   7. xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
   8. >

2. lambic
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Here is the first bit of wp-rss2.php:
   
<?php
if (!isset($feed) || !$feed) {
$blog = 1;
$doing_rss = 1;
require('wp-blog-header.php');
}
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=' . get_settings('blog_charset'), true);
$more = 1;
?>
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>

   I tried squishing everything up into 1 php block with no blank lines, but that didn't make any difference. I also tried commenting out the header call, but that just made things worse.

3. lambic
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   phew, that was a journey...
   I went from wp-rss2.php to wp-blog-header.php to wp-settings.php and finally tracked it down to the moment when the plugins get loaded. Then I went through each plugin until I tracked it down to random_file.php, which turned out to have a couple of stray ctrl-m characters at the end. Cleaned that up, et voila, a valid rss feed!

4. indi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   in my case a beta of Textile 2 was messing up the feed

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