• Hello there,

    I am trying to have my blog fed through FEEDBURNER.
    During the setup process, I’m asked to validate the Feed Url.
    The url I’m trying to validate is
    http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed=rss2

    I have no idea how to correct the error message that displays when
    I try to validate on feedvalidator.org

    The error message i receive is:
    Sorry
    This feed does not validate.

    Feeds should not be served with the “text/html” media type [help]

    line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
    Source: http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed%3Drss2

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

    I would appreciate any help I could get on this.
    I searched through the other posts and couldn’t find info that
    relates to my particular problem. If i missed it, please help
    me find it.

    Thanks,
    Steve

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  • I don’t have a solution to your problem, but i’v got the same problem as you have.

    My URI is http://skrollster.se

    none of the feeds can be vailidated

    the problem is that there is a line feed before the deklaration..

    i’v tried to reinstall 2.0 3 times now and the same problem all the time.

    any ideas?

    Thread Starter lucasteve

    (@lucasteve)

    Hmmm…

    I don’t really know what to do either…

    here’s a link to another thread that someone in the irc chat
    sent to me…

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/16575?replies=17

    here’s another link i discovered…

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52713?replies=14

    Maybe if you read through these, you’ll understand the problem
    a little better, but like me, you’ll still not have the solution.

    ugh!!!!

    Thread Starter lucasteve

    (@lucasteve)

    one more thing…

    i’ve been told that there is a wordpress 2.0/final version
    while i can only find the wordpress 2.0/rc2 version…

    someone mentioned that upgrading to the final version
    may solve the problem.

    Since i’m using the Yahoo automatic upgrade feature,
    i’m afraid that i’ll screw things up if i try that myself.

    If you do try this, and it works,
    could you let me know and i’ll contact yahoo!!

    I’m using the latest version and i’m having the same problem. Im working on it.

    I found the problem, in one of the latest post i had this img link..

    <img src=”http://www.talishka.com.ar/images/trucomovil.jpg&#8221; alt=”Truco!” />

    As you can see there’s a “!” after the word Truco in the alt label, well.. i removed that exclamation and everything started to work fine again. I hope this help you out guys.

    Thread Starter lucasteve

    (@lucasteve)

    Wow…so, now i should go through to make sure there are no “!”
    in the alt tags of any of my posts??

    How would you even have thought that that might be what’s causing?

    God this is all so confusing!!

    Thanks for the heads-up 🙂

    i found my error..

    it was in a plugin.. but i don’t get it.. i did disable the plug in and tested without it and the error was still there..

    i found it by starting to add comments in my index.php file

    echo “<!– before –>”;
    — whatever function was next
    echo “<!– after –>”;

    and if the comments where at diffrent line i knew that the problem was between the two comments.. and i dugg deeper and deeper until i came to the function where the plugins where called and found what plug in caused the error by doing

    echo “<!– before $plugin –>”;
    the call of the plugin
    echo “<!– after $plugin –>”;

    Thread Starter lucasteve

    (@lucasteve)

    Hey Skrollster –

    Any chance you can go a little more into detail on how i can do
    what you did to check my plugins??

    I really didn’t understand the concept.

    p.s. I went to your blog because i wanted to email you,
    and I discovered after clicking on your picture that there is an
    error on that page that I think is related to your last post.

    I hope you can help 🙂

    Steve

    I changed back to the default permalink structure and my feed validated in Feedburner. So far it appears to be working….

    Trackbacks however, are not yet working…….

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