RSS problems

Posted by cynthiam on September 10, 2009 at 2:10pm

Two things:

1. We have an RSS link on our site http://www.mothering.com/rss.xml but clicking on it just gives the XML file to download. This site's RSS link: http://www.fashionata.be/rss.xml is the same as ours but it opens a page. How can we get this to happen for our RSS?

2. Our RSS is not parsing correctly. It seems there is an extra white space at the top of the feed. How do I correct that?

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

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Whitespace is the culprit

Posted by choster on September 10, 2009 at 4:18pm

Since XML requires that the XML prefix come before anything else in the document, it's possible that extra whitespace is causing the whole RSS feed not to validate. But as to why you'd get such a variation from a core component is beyond me :(. The MIME type and character set seem to be set correctly.

I installed the Feedburner

Posted by cynthiam on September 10, 2009 at 5:03pm

I installed the Feedburner module, got that set up and then went to Feedburner to burn our feed. I got this:

XML Parsing error: syntax error
Explanation

Your feed is not well formed according to the XML specification. All feeds must be well-formed XML. In fact, IE7 and the RSS platform in Windows Vista only support feeds that are well-formed XML.
Solution

The text of the error may contain additional helpful details. At a minimum, the actual line and column number where the error was detected will be reported.

The most common cause is encoding errors. There are several basic approaches to solving this: escaping problematic characters ("<" becomes "<", "&" becomes "&", etc.), escaping entire blocks of text with CDATA sections, or putting an encoding declaration at the start of the feed.

Another common error is the inclusion of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) before the XML Declaration. If an XML Declaration is included, it must be the first thing in the document
Not clear? Disagree?

You might be able to find help in one of these fine resources.

But how do I fix the file? I can't find a rss.xml file on our server to even look to see if i can find the error.

It would seem the rss.xml

Posted by cynthiam on September 10, 2009 at 6:13pm

It would seem the rss.xml file is in our root but it is not there. Can anyone tell me where I might find it?

Anyone know how to edit the

Posted by cynthiam on September 12, 2009 at 11:20pm

Anyone know how to edit the rss.xml file? Or where it is located? I might be able to figure it out if I could only find it. LOL!

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Posted by VM on September 12, 2009 at 11:21pm

There is no rss.xml "file". That is why you can't find it. It's core generated based on the path /node

You problem is likely that one of the teasers, some content or some blocks on your front page are malformed. run the page through a validator.

It seems the issue is that it

Posted by cynthiam on September 15, 2009 at 5:18pm

It seems the issue is that it is like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

When it should be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

There's a white space at the beginning of that line. Does that still mean it is a teaser, some content, or some block malformed? I did disable teasers and that did not make a difference.

Run what page, specifically, through a validator?

Thanks much. :o)

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Posted by VM on September 15, 2009 at 9:12pm

what is exact version of drupal in use?

your feed validated = http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mothering.co...
other link you supplied validated = http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fashionata.b...

If there is white space there I don't see it, though I don't know that whitespace can cause a feed to fail completely.

The pages that would require validation could be anything on the frontpage or included in the feed itself.

Usually whitespace at the

Posted by Dave Reid on September 24, 2009 at 11:47pm

Usually whitespace at the beginning of output is some random module that has a space before their opening PHP tag (<php).

Senior Drupal Engineer for Palantir.net | www.davereid.net | certifiedtorock.com/u/53892

UPDATE - I found 2 modules that had spaces after the closing php tag (?>). Removing those took care of the problem

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Whitespace is the culprit

I installed the Feedburner

It would seem the rss.xml

Anyone know how to edit the

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It seems the issue is that it

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Usually whitespace at the

So I open every .module file

Drupal version is 6.12

Any luck being able to

which modules

Yes, please, let us know

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