Plain simple. I have tried with several (wordpress uses rss2) but it seems unable to retrieve any items. Doing a search I have ran into this thread. The MSN Live Spaces feeds (RSS1) do not seem to work either amongst others named in the above thread.

A fix would be appreciated.

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Give it a try yourself. Here are two WP ones that don't work with my 5.1 aggregator module:
http://www.rmbrualla.com/medemblog/feed/
http://bwalex.wordpress.com/feed/
Then there's
http://schnucklmauschen.spaces.live.com/feed.rss
All the above ones give no error but stay at '0 items'.

And from the other thread we've got:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance.rss
("no element found" in line 1)
http://haze.mameworld.info/feed/
("mismatched tag" in line 12)

That's all the info I can give. This is critical since it's a major functionality bug in the module (lack of compatibility,... you name it).

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Title: Wordpress feeds do not work (among others) » Aggregator parser has errors with some feeds

Changing the title to make this THE ticket for looking at feeds that don't work with the core parser.

Please do add links to other feeds that aren't working.
1. Check the feed with the http://feedvalidator.org/ -- if it's not valid, then it just won't work
2. Post the error message

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Here's another one, Y Combinator Startup News at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Feed Validator says it's valid, but Drupal's aggregator gives an "Invalid document end" error. I set up a FeedBurner feed for Y Combinator Startup News in case anyone else needs it before this gets fixed in aggregator.module.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/YCombinatorStartupNews

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Here's one I encountered - Firefox and IE7 read it ok, and it looks like valid xml when I look at source (although I didn't know you can include comments in feeds of the <!-- variety --%gt;, but feedvalidator.org seems to get back html instead of rss when I test it there so I suspect Drupal is getting the same treatment - I've requested the feed source site builders look at it.
http://www.neilpryde.com/index.php?option=com_rd_rss&id=2

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Winzurf, I think you hit the nail on the head. The feedburner trick I talked about on the other thread at uofl.info always works, because that server (feedburner) sends the file correctly.

What I think needs to be decided is, should Drupal be more lenient about malformed XML? Most feed readers are. It doesn't seem that there is any penalty for doing this. I do think the priority should be lower as Drupal is technically correct and the problem has an easy workaround with feedburner.

- Dio -
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I've had a little time to look a little deeper into the issue and found out that wordpress creates RSS.92, RSS2, and ATOM feeds... None of them is readable by the aggregator 5.1.

The feeds are valid (checked with the above validator). It's a shame that noone seems to care enough to do something about it. This is a major functionality bug.

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Title: Aggregator parser has errors with some feeds » #7
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I've tried the feedburner workaround and it does not work with wordpress feeds for me... try it out yourself:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/facitomniavoluntas

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Title: #7 » Aggregator parser has errors with some feeds

whoops (forgot how the issue system works, lol)

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There is an existing thread in the wordpress forums regarding RSS feed errors that may be related: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/169040 --

I used http://feedvalidator.org/ to check my feed and SOMETIMES it reports two blank lines at the top. Whitespace isn't allowed before the "<?xml version..." tag and some readers (like perhaps Tbird) barf.

No solution, and no guarantee that they're related to what we're seeing, but a validation error on line 1 in wordpress feeds does seem strangely similar to what's going on here.

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This feed does not work: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml

There is no error displayed.

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Aggregater only seems to pull one item on a wordpress feed. e.g. http://www.seocxo.com/seo-sem-talk/feed/

Feed validates fine.

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@totus, Check the "discard items older than x" setting under admin/content/aggregator/settings - it may be discarding feed items from the feed you listed since they're not exactly recent.

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Is this still an issue in the latest D6 (or D7 or D8)?

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Yes, it's still an issue. Aggregator version 6.22. RSS feed - http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/wcm_cfm/rss/feed.cfm . Error message - The feed from Siemens PLM Software News seems to be broken, due to an error "Invalid document end" on line 1.

Thanks in advance for looking in to it.

Regards, Saurabh

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Automatically closed because Drupal 6 is no longer supported. If the issue verifiably applies to later versions, please reopen with details and update the version.

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Version: 6.8 » 6.x-dev