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#1 2010-11-26 01:39:13

Abidjanaise

New Member

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 5

RSS feed has stopped working

My RSS feed has stopped working in the last week. I haven’t done anything to modify my templates and I haven’t updated to 4.3.0.

My head form has the following lines:

<txp:feed_link format=“link” flavor=“rss” />
<txp:feed_link format=“link” flavor=“atom” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“Sparkling Adventures” href=“http://www.sparklingadventures.com/index.php?rss=1&section=article” />

And Feed Validator for http://www.sparklingadventures.com/index.php?rss=1 says:

This feed does not validate.

* line 1067, column 461: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1067:461: not well-formed (invalid token) [help] … ianbasin.html”>Great Artesian Basin</a> — the water is naturally heated … ^

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.

* line 11, column 0: Ensure description precedes content:encoded (12 occurrences) [help] <content:encoded>

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So, what can I do to correct this, and how could it have “broken” in the first place?
I’m also intrigued by the error that Feed Validator says for my Great Artesian Basin link… I simply used the textile standard of Great Artesian Basin to reference the link. Why is it not a valid form of linking?

Thanks so much.

#2 2010-11-26 01:42:59

Abidjanaise

New Member

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: RSS feed has stopped working

As is often the case, I was able to fix my own problem ONLY AFTER I called for help. Somehow, there must have been a funny character embedded after my line 1067 link. I have fixed that.

However, I am still receiving this from feed validator:
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 11, column 0: Ensure description precedes content:encoded (15 occurrences) [help] <content:encoded> line 1246, column 0: content:encoded should not contain object tag [help]

Since I cannot find the content:encoded details anywhere in the txp forms, what should I be looking for, and where should I move it to?

#3 2010-11-26 14:49:11

thebombsite

Archived Plugin Author

From: Exmouth, England

Registered: 2004-08-24

Posts: 3,251

Website

Re: RSS feed has stopped working

Hi. How are you today?

First problem is that you didn’t have a “DocType” declaration so I’ve added one.

As far as I can see all feeds now validate and work. There are some minor “recommendations” but you can’t do anything about these as they are down to the RSS and Atom base code. They are only minor points though.

And it’s time you upgraded to 4.3.0 ;)

Last edited by thebombsite (2010-11-26 15:29:47)

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#4 2010-11-27 04:57:05

Abidjanaise

New Member

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: RSS feed has stopped working

Hi Stuart! We’re on the road, so I’ll delay the upgrade until I’m back home with all my back-ups in place :). Thanks for the help, as always!