Title: XML Parsing error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XML Parsing error

 *  [7seconden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/7seconden/)
 * (@7seconden)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/)
 * It seems some of my blogreaders are unable to read the RSS-feeds. They get b/
   m errors:
 * `XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
   
   Location: http://www.7seconden.be/feed/rss2/ Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version
   ="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 * and
 * `XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
   
   Location: http://www.7seconden.be/comments/feed/rss2/ Line Number 2, Column 1:
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- generator="wordpress/1.2" -->
 * Funny thing is I can read my feeds without any problems by using BlogLines ?
 * Can somebody help?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/#post-136151)
 * [http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.7seconden.be%2Ffeed%2Frss2%2F](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.7seconden.be%2Ffeed%2Frss2%2F)
 * Something in your setup is knocking things down one line on every page. For an
   RSS feed this is bad, since the specs on it require the first line be the `<?
   xml` tag.
 * Note that you can see this effect on other pages as well; take a look at the 
   source of your home page.
 * Though no guarantees, a couple suggestions to try and clear this up:
 * * Turn off any plugins.
    * Upgrade to most recent (stable) version of WordPress.
   That would currently be 1.2.2.
 *  Thread Starter [7seconden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/7seconden/)
 * (@7seconden)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/#post-136155)
 * The last plugin I tried to install was the Top Commenters one, but I deleted 
   both the functions called in the index.php file, as well as the plugin in the
   plugin-folder.
 * Is it possible this caused the problem?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/#post-136286)
 * Possible, yes.
 * The problem is, of the several users I’ve seen bring this up in the forums, one
   turned off a plugin which solved the problem, one dug until he discovered a bad
   piece of customization in his code, and another had to remove her WordPress files
   and sort of start over. So at this point I can’t say what causes it, except in
   general some small bug in the underlying PHP code of your site. Where that is
   and why it’s causing is anyones’ guess.
 *  [madbard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madbard/)
 * (@madbard)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/#post-136972)
 * Bingo! I found my problem with the ‘auto close comments’ plugin. not sure how
   to fix it yet but i’ve disabled that plugin.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [madbard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madbard/)
 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-parsing-error/#post-136972)
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