In my case, it was the “Acronym” plugin.
My girlfriend solved this for me
around line 4 in wp-blog-header.php there is a ?> with some bad spacing before the next <?
fixing this makes everything happy.
Hey, here’s the plugin that caused me trouble: it was Link Library (which I’m not using anyway). It had extra whitespace in the processing instruction area. Just deactivate it and see if that helps you.
Ken
hmm. blogtimes is giving me error. and i don’t know how to fix it.
blogtimes is the one causing the error for me
Hi guys,
I have the same problem:
XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location: http://www.geektavern.com/index.php/feed/
Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
^
I disabled ALL of the plugins, fixed all the white space issues. It just will not work.
I am hosted on a windows platform, so I don’t use the .htaccess file.
Could somebody please let me know what I am over looking. Thank you.
Steve Farmer
http://www.GeekTavern.com
I had the same error message and fixed it by disabling Scott Hanson’s “Auto-Close Comments v.0.1” plug-in. 🙂 Thanks for the tips guys!
Posting in the hope that this may be of help to others …
Had the same problem –> the extra whitespace was caused by the (most excellent) Theme Switcher plugin, it had an extra line at the top of the code. Cheers!
I am a wordpress newbie. I am having the same issue, i.e.
I cannot subscribe to my own RSS feed, and getting the same
error: “XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity”
I believe my issue is that refered to by dubsix, i.e. I used the
themeswitcher plugin. Now, how do I go about fixing it?
I have a tonne of plugins.. how am I supposed to find where it is..
I was able to fix my issue. What I did was go to the Plug Ins tab on WordPress, then make a note of which ones were enabled. Then I disabled them all. My RSS feed now works. Then I set about reenabling them. I only had 3 plugins since this is my first blog so it wasn’t too much trouble. (The odd thing is I’m pretty sure I reenabled all the ones I disabled and it still works – not 100% sure about that tho’)
I am using WordPress 2.0. It’s newly installed, and even with all plug-ins disabled I’m having this problem. Any help would be appreciated. The blog is at:
http://www.japanwindow.com/diffuser/
I fixed the problem by reinstalling the blog. I rebuilt it exactly as before, but this time the RSS is working. I wish I know why it broke, but at least it’s fixed.
i got some problem
fixed by disabу each of installed plugin
my bug in WP-ShortStat plugin
Yow; I’m struggling big-time with feedvalidator.org (recently, this past month) complaining at the very fist line of my RSS2 feed (detailed error at the end).
I have been up and down all the forums, FAQs, etc, and finding that there are ‘extra whitespace’ issues is almost beyond belief. Whitespace should not cause such a huge number of headaches in this day and age.
No I find my blog is no longer picked up by Bloglines or Technorati as a result of *SOMETHING* that happened in the last month, and am really stumped.
The error:
This feed does not validate.
line 1, column 30: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:30: XML declaration not well-formed [help]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?>
Even if I ‘hardwire’ the ‘apparently unevaluated get_settings’ to say “utf-8” I still get an error (this time complaining about the blank line 1).
Anyone got a suggestion? All plugins are disabled EXCEPT Akismet which I need desperately for spam detection. Moreover it worked fine until this month.
Many thanks!
-M
p.s. I have also turned off all my plugins; found a few more related threads; seems a lot of people are going crazy…
I have emailed Technorati and WordPress support directly about this, last week, but still no news.
