Title: RSS failing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS failing

 *  [lukemv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukemv/)
 * (@lukemv)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/)
 * For some odd reason my RSS feed isn’t working. Its been down for a couple of 
   days. I recently tried using the feedburner plug-in when I had noticed it was
   no longer working (the feedburner plug-in had worked for a few days). I upgraded
   my version of WP and the RSS still isn’t working.
 * I’ve tried several different addresses where the feed may be, with no avail.
 * Is there a place I can define hte address (like, a physical xml file on my server?)
   ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591777)
 * _ANY help would be greatly appreciated._
 * any help is hard to provide without a link to the wordpress blog having the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [lukemv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukemv/)
 * (@lukemv)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591812)
 * Sorry, the site is in development…didn’t know if anyone had thoughts on if it
   were a common occurrence:
 * [http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/](http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/)
 * I am also trying to parse the RSS to a PHP page here: [http://worcesterscene.com/calendar.php](http://worcesterscene.com/calendar.php)
   (
   ignore the subscribe link, it is linking to the old feedburner account)
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591841)
 * the immesiatwe trouble with your feed can be seen 2-3 ways..
 * First looking at the page, and then viewing its source:
 * [http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/wp-rss2.php](http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/wp-rss2.php)
 * you will notice that its complaining about this:
 * _1900, and 1950—to_
 * 2. Now if you actually go back to your site, take a look at in firefox, view 
   the source of that page, and copy and paste the source of that into wordpad, 
   you will see this:
 * [http://www.village-idiot.org/broke/char.gif](http://www.village-idiot.org/broke/char.gif)
 * 3. Validate your site, it’s seen there as well. Its the first error mentioned:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://worcesterscene.com/calendar/)
 * Edit that post, and fix that, see what happens then.
 * It even shows up when i edit this post after pasting it
 *  Thread Starter [lukemv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukemv/)
 * (@lukemv)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591857)
 * Worked perfectly. Was not aware that em dashes kill XML. Thank you for your help.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591860)
 * you’re welcome 🙂

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-failing/#post-591860)
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