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1. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   My feed:
   http://www.paulolyslager.com/feed
   or
   http://feeds.feedburner.com/wwwpaulolyslagercom
   

   As you can see I get an error:
   XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
   Location: http://www.paulolyslager.com/feed
   Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   ^

   I've been looking in the wordpress forum and found the fix-rss-feed plugin, which deletes blank lines. But no results.

   Through feedburner I can ping to my feed, which works.

   The feed validator of feedburner showed me this:
   line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration
   I've been digging into the code of wp-rss2.php, wp-atom.php, functions.php but can't find any blank line...

   Someone has other idea's? Would be most welcome.

   cheers

   Paul

2. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Just tried different browsers:

   FF, IE, chrome and Opera don't show the feed.

   In Opera:

   XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 3, Character: 0)

   Reparse document as HTML
   Error:XML declaration not at beginning of document
   Specification:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
   1:
   2:
   3: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
   4: xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
   5: xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
   6: xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

   Safari shows the feed just nicely!

3. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Ok, fixed the problem and it works in all mentioned browsers... Really weird but really easy... just cleaned my header :)

   I had some blanc lines in there to visually seperate the metatag-lines, rss-lines, blogname-lines, ...

   I hope it works for the other people as well!

4. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hmmm, spoke too soon...

   the feedburner link is working... the normal feed (http://www.paulolyslager.com/feed) is still not responding.

   Let me know if someone has an answer!

5. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   you have blank lines at the start

   some review

   plugin that might help
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/

6. Greetje
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   He used that plugin already.
   I'm having exactly the same problems.

7. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Thank you for your replies... Yes, thank you Greetje... As mentioned before Samboll, i've tried the fix-rss-feed without any luck. Also cleaned up my header for any white spaces and still not working. Someone else has an idea please?

   @Greetje, let me know how it works out for you!

   cheers

8. paulolyslager
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   ok, i found this article:

   http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/05/wordpress-feed-xml-parsing-errors/

   It made me realise that the only php code i changed over the past few weeks was those of the theme files. I found a blanc line in my archive.php.

   Maybe you should those as well!

9. pdbanimations
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I ve tried every single whitespace delete I can find and still no luck with this :(

   linktobrokenrss

   If anyone can see anything obvious I am missing by the link that would be great.

   Cheers.

10. James
    Happiness Engineer
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    pdbanimations, your feed is working fine and it's perfectly valid:

    http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orwellx.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2

    If you continue to have problems, please start your own topic.

11. pdbanimations
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Thanks for response. Sorry for posting here found it on a google search. It is now working ... somehow lol! I went to work and come back and it now works spooky maybe it took a while to update or something.

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