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#1 2010-11-26 19:01:24

snthr

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

rss woes

hi. i’m using the simplepie plugin for textpattern to grab a feed from one of my sites and display it on another (both txp sites).

it was working fine until this afternoon. i haven’t touched it, i haven’t installed or uninstalled anything, it just stopped working, and is now giving this message:

XML error: XML_ERR_NAME_REQUIRED at line 55, column 28

any ideas?

thanks.

#2 2010-11-26 19:03:25

snthr

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

Re: rss woes

i should add: i tried to use the code for the plugin with a different rss feed, and it worked fine. weird, eh?

Last edited by snthr (2010-11-26 19:08:16)

#3 2010-11-26 19:49:07

jakob

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Re: rss woes

As a first pointer, have a look at that position in the feed you are importing or run the feed you are importing through the feed validator. That might give you a clue why the plugin has choked on something “not well-formed” or missing in the rss-feed at that position. Sometimes it’s a disallowed character or badly encoded character in the source feed that causes the problem.

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#4 2010-11-26 20:37:37

snthr

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 42

Re: rss woes

that was it — i imported some old blog entries from movable type, and once i cleaned the html in those entries, it started to work again. thanks!