By steven mansour on

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out why my RSS feeds are broken:

"

This feed does not validate.

    *

      line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]

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

Source: http://www.mysite.org/rss.xml

   1.
   2. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   3. <rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://www.mysite.org" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
   4. <channel>
...
"

The problem seems to be that line one is empty - the rest of the XML file is fine, but because the <?xml ...> declaration begins at line 2, the RSS is not valid and cannot be aggregated.

I've tried this with all my feeds, and even the atom.module - same problem.

I've disabled all my contributed modules, unpublished all my non-english content, and still get the same error.

Is there anywhere else I can look for why Drupal is injecting a line of whitespace into my RSS feed?

Thanks,

s.
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bioye’s picture

bioye commented

I'm having a similar problem. The drupal logs page reports that: The RSS-feed from ... News - Google seems to be broken, due to arbitrary error. And the feed display on the block shows a single repeated news item only instead of multiple.

Somebody help please..

..And thanks.

Renirtor’s picture

Renirtor commented

I had a similiar issue untill I noticed that using a clean theme (bluemarine) I had not the problem (to check if it's the same with your site, install it as default also for visitors, or you won't be able to test it) and that the reason of the empty line was something in my customized theme's template.php file.

Hope this could help,

Renirtor