judahfreed

To help myself find where to make the correction with the blank line, I ran Feed Validator at my blog:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-visions.com…
With these results:

Sorry
This feed does not validate.
*
line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration [help]
^

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers
could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.
*
line 47, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel=”self” [help]
</channel>
^

Source: http://media-visions.com/media_reports/feed/

1.
2. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><!– generator=”wordpress/
2.0.2″ –>
3. <rss version=”2.0″
etc…

MY PROBLEMS:

1) I DO NOT HAVE ANY SUBDIRECTORY IN MY BLOG CALLED “FEED” —
So I cannot find the file that has the blank line before the XML Declaration “<?xml version=”1.0″ ….”

Please advise me on WHERE to look for this error. Which file among the dozens of php files in my blog is responsible for this line error?

2) I am unclear which php file contains the error:

line 47, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel=”self”

I’ve tried a search in TextWrangler without finding the two code strings at issue. Likely the answer is in plain sight, but I’m still a newbie. So I may be missing the obvious.

FYI. Feed Validator said:

Solution

If you haven’t already done so, declare the Atom namespace at the top of your feed, thus:

<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”&gt;

Then insert a atom:link to your feed in the channel section. Below is an example to get you started. Be sure to replace the value of the href attribute with the URL of your feed.

HOWEVER: even when I figure out (with your help) which php file to correct, I still do not know where in the file to insert the suggested code.

Thanks for helping me.
jf

I’m getting almost the same error message:

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://media-visions.com/media_reports/?feed=rss2
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

As recommended, I’ve checked all the files cited in this post:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

The error is still occurring, and it occurs no matter which theme I install.

This is the blog at issue:
http://media-visions.com/media_reports/

FYI:
My other blog is generally working:
http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/feed/

But it puts this note on top of the feed readout:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I tried a workaround by copping all of the php files cited by Validator (except config.php) from the functional blog to the dysfunctional blog, and that made no difference. I still get the same RSS error as at the top of this email.

Any helpful guidance will be appreciated!