Title: Problem with rss feed validation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem with rss feed validation

 *  [melyanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melyanna/)
 * (@melyanna)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/)
 * Hi everyone 🙂
    I’m quite new to wordpress, I know almost nothing of css and *
   absolutely* nothing about php. I have troubles validating my weblog’s rss feed(
   both with wp-atom.php and wprss2.php): when I try to validate them through a 
   validator, I get this error message: “XML Parsing error: <unknown>:4:0: xml declaration
   not at start of external entity” here are the urls to my files: [http://melyanna.altervista.org/wp-atom.php](http://melyanna.altervista.org/wp-atom.php)
   [http://melyanna.altervista.org/wp-rss2.php](http://melyanna.altervista.org/wp-rss2.php)
   Could you please help me fixing them? Sorry if this topic has been already discussed:
   I tried browsing this forum before posting and found nothing. Thank you in advance,
   Kiara

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/#post-102812)
 * Don’t “browse”. Try [search](http://wordpress.org/support/?action=search&searchFor=rss+validation)
   and [search](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awordpress.org%20rss+validation)
   🙂
 *  [tchansen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tchansen/)
 * (@tchansen)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/#post-102861)
 * melyanna,
    Try the fix at this post: [http://wordpress.org/support/4/6929](http://wordpress.org/support/4/6929)
   You can also email me or IM me (tchansen at xmission dot com on MSN) and I’ll
   try to help – and post back here as well.
 *  Thread Starter [melyanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melyanna/)
 * (@melyanna)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/#post-102876)
 * I’ll try the fix you suggested, thank you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [melyanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melyanna/)
 * (@melyanna)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/#post-103244)
 * OK, problem solved.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [melyanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melyanna/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-feed-validation/#post-103244)
 * Status: not resolved

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