[thelist] RSS Validation Problems - Solved

[Asif Suria]

Thanks for checking Paul. I had seen examples that
used the xmlns:content attribute but that was not the
problem.

The problem had to do with 

1. White space before the <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> line (I would never have
guessed this).

2. Missing </link> tags because Dreamweaver UltraDev
decided to arbitrarily remove all </link> tags. I have
had issues with Dreamweaver in the past where it adds
arbitrary code to the end of certain files. Switching
to Textpad as an editor fixed this problem.

3. I used a pubDate of 1:00:00 GMT instead of 01:00:00
GMT. 

4. I put in those "-" signs in the code and they are
not supposed to be in the code but are displayed when
the browser parses through the XML code (I can't
believe I did this :-)).

The final validated RSS feed code is now at,

http://www.sinletter.com/rss.xml 

--- Paul Waring <pwaring at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/23/05, Asif Suria <asifsuria at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The following error from the validators is not
> making
> > much sense to me and I was hoping that some RSS
> expert
> > on this list might be able to understand that it
> > means.
> >
> > "line 1, column 2: XML parsing error:
> <unknown>:1:2:
> > xml declaration not at start of external entity
> >
> >   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>"
> 
> I don't know for sure if this is the problem, but in
> my RSS feed I
> have this code:
> 
> <rss version="2.0"
>
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
> 
> instead of just:
> 
> <rss version="2.0">
> 
> You could try adding the XML namespace part
> (xmlns:...) and see if that works.
> 
> Paul
> 
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