Title: Something within WordPress is causing me validation errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Something within WordPress is causing me validation errors

 *  [HarveyLester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harveylester/)
 * (@harveylester)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/something-within-wordpress-is-causing-me-validation-errors/)
 * Hi,
 * When I enter submit search terms into the search bar on my [site](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/),
   and then put the resulting page through a validation test at [http://validator.w3.org/check](http://validator.w3.org/check),
   I get the following validation errors:
 * > Line 35, Column 200: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “
   > feed”
   >  …ref=”[http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&amp](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&amp);**
   > f**eed=rss2″ />
   > Line 35, Column 200: general entity “feed” not defined and no default entity
   > …
   > ref=”[http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&amp](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&amp);**
   > f**eed=rss2″ />
   > Line 35, Column 204: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
   >  …ref=”[http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed)**
   > =**rss2″ />
   > Line 35, Column 204: reference to external entity in attribute value
   >  …ref=”
   > [http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed)**
   > =**rss2″ />
   > Line 35, Column 204: reference to entity “feed” for which no system identifier
   > could be generated
   >  …ref=”[http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term&feed)**
   > =**rss2″ />
   > Line 35, Column 199: entity was defined here
   >  …ref=”[http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term](http://www.projectdisobey.com/disobeyclothing/?s=Search+Term)**&**
   > feed=rss2″ />
 * I know that all these errors are resulting from an unencoded ampersand. My question
   is, which WordPress file do I need to go into in order to change the ‘&’ to a‘&
   amp ;’?
 * Thanks

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