XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity

  • mattfini

    (@mattfini)


    16 years ago

    Hello everyone,

    I just created the blog portion of my site:

    It’s been up for about four days and I was wondering why I wasn’t receiving any hits whatsoever. When I checked out Entries RSS and Comments RSS, however, all I see is the following error:

    XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location: http://bloodandsleaze.com/blog/feed/
    Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
    ^

    I took this to feed validator and got the following:
    line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity

    Here’s the source: http://bloodandsleaze.com/blog/feed/rss/

    Feed Validator has this top line highlighted: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><!– generator=”wordpress/2.3.3″ –>

    So, if you can’t tell, I’m very inexperienced when it comes to this stuff. I’m not sure what this means and I have no idea how to fix it. Any help would be much obliged!

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  • Jon

    (@jonpaulwade)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I have created a WordPress blog and am getting the same problem.

    i.e

    XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location: http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/feed/
    Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

    Using the cutline-3-column-split-11 theme. Could the theme be the problem? Not done much else to the blog so far, installed some plugins, but all from WordPress.org.

    karanits

    (@karanits)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    hey guys.
    the reason you are getting this error is you have extra white spaces somewhere in you plugin’s PHP files. to resolve this remove any spaces before <? in starting of the plugin file and after ?>.

    also the file to look for extra spaces is wp-config.php because this is the only file of wordpress files which you edit and added extra spaces.

    more information how to do this is given here

    BJ05

    (@bj05)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    None of this works! After all of these years with WordPress, To hell with them! I’ll try MT or something with support!

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