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Why my feed is invalid?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by melege, Mar 12, 2009.

  1. #1
    I created an RSS feed manually. but when I use it in some Feed sites or social bookmarking sites, it says: "Couldn't parse RSS file!"
    Anyone can check what's wrong with it, please?

    The feed URL is:
    http://twesto.com/mostpopular.xml

    Thanks
     
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    melege, Mar 12, 2009 IP
  2. #2
    I got this error message " XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location:
    Line Number 2, Column 1:<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
    ^"

    maybe have a look at line 2 eh?

    Good luck
     
    physicist, Mar 12, 2009 IP
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Title, link, and description should be inside <channel>, not before it. they are not valid root elements in a XML RSS feed. Also a LOT of XML parsers choke on non UTF encodings, so as convenient as Windows-1256 might be for you when working in Arabic, get that thing to UTF-8.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <rss version="2.0">
    	<channel>
    		<title>تويستو Twesto</title>
    		<description>
    			Twesto web services. تويستو لخدمات الويب.
    		</description>
    		<link>http://twesto.com/</link>
    		<item>
    			<title>نجوم اف ام</title>
    			<description>الإستماع إلى البث المباشر لإذاعة نجوم اف ام على الإنترنت.</description>
    			<link>http://twesto.com/nogoomfm/</link>
    		</item>
    		<item>
    			<title>Nogoom FM</title>
    			<description>Listen to Nogoom FM live stream on the internet.</description>
    			<link>http://twesto.com/nogoomfm/</link>
    		</item>
    	</channel>
    </rss>
    Code (markup):
    Though a nice side effect is the ability to run multiple channels per feed.

    .. and be bloody well certain <?xml is the FIRST line of code, some parsers will choke if you even have a CR/LF before it. that < MUST be the first character for best compatibility. SOME parsers will also screw up if you leave out the space between " and ?> -- which is really stupid, but XML was designed to make the parser as simple as possible and the people writing XML work harder.
     
    deathshadow, Jun 28, 2017 IP