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I've tried everything but cant fix my feed.   Message List  
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Re: [rss-public] I've tried everything but cant fix my feed.

Short answer:
You've got a ton of formatting junk in the feed. Take it out.

Long(er) answer is feeds are designed to carry textual info and small
amounts of extra data (like enclosures, etc). Not a ton of formatting and
scripting. You need to make a feed that's composed of text, not just web
posts full of bells-and-whistles. Feeds are (largely) designed to allow
readers to READ them, not be inundated with a barrage of web gizmos. That's
what web pages are for, not feeds.

So, simplify the feed and it'll work.

----- Original Message -----

> My feed was working fine until the end of the month when this error
> appeared which means my rss and podcast feeds just dont work:
>
> line 800, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:800:0: junk after
> document element [help]
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> This is the feedvalidator address:
>
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musiclikedirt.com%2Ffeed
>
> I dont understand why it suddenly changed as Im wracking my mind to
> remember changing anything on the site?
>
> Can anyone help or point me in right direction?
>




Tue Nov 4, 2008 3:16 pm

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My feed was working fine until the end of the month when this error appeared which means my rss and podcast feeds just dont work: line 800, column 0: XML...
neilm_365
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Nov 4, 2008
2:28 pm

Short answer: You've got a ton of formatting junk in the feed. Take it out. Long(er) answer is feeds are designed to carry textual info and small amounts of...
Bill Kearney
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Nov 4, 2008
3:25 pm

Bill, I think that's your opinion and likely the intent of RDF RSS, but RSS 2.0 specifically allows for markup and style (formatting junk). Many RSS clients...
Randy Morin
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Nov 4, 2008
4:13 pm

Thanks Randy I just wasted three days switching off plug ins, deleting &'s, checking code and unpublishing posts trying to fix it but it turns out I'd been...
neilm_365
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Nov 4, 2008
4:29 pm

I think what happened is I got hacked. Just got this email from a programmer friend of mine: I'm afraid it looks like your site has been hacked - if it's...
neilm_365
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Nov 4, 2008
4:30 pm
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