I get an XML Parsing Error whenever i got to my journals rss feeds

What programm are you using? I had a similar problem with IE 6.0 am german "umlauts" ...

This is not about umlauts. It's about <?xml being preceded by a space character.

Make sure you're using the wp-rss2.php file from a fresh install and that you did not edit it in any way.

It seems that something, somewhere, is echoing a space before the <?xml ?> processing entity. Have a look through your wp-blog-header.php file, that's the only other file being included.

Or, if you have a particulary strict PHP running on your server, it could be the line break before the line

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . $charset . '"?'.'>'; ?>

on line 13.

edited on: 06-22-04 16:33

Patch for that bug:

sh-2.05b# diff --rcs wp-rss2.php wp-rss2.php.patched d12 2 a13 1 echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . $charset . '"?'.'>'; ?>

This occurs in several of the xml generating files.

(I added the previous bugnote as well)

I removed the extra line-feed in the rss2 file (and all others using this same code) and it still is placing a line-feed in the content before that point. I'm tracking the code through the all of the various includes/requires to track this further.

OK, I found that the 'weekday' plugin was also adding a new-line character. All plugin developers should probably be informed that adding new-lines in their code (usually by ending or starting their main php with a trailing or leading new-line) can screw up xml parsing.

edited on: 07-08-04 14:42

I get this error when visiting that URI:

Warning: Unknown(): Unable to access c:\domains\chenu.uni.cc\wwwroot\wp-rss2.php in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(c:\domains\chenu.uni.cc\wwwroot\wp-rss2.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): Unable to access c:\domains\chenu.uni.cc\wwwroot\wp-rss2.php in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(c:\domains\chenu.uni.cc\wwwroot\wp-rss2.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'c:\domains\chenu.uni.cc\wwwroot\wp-rss2.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php\includes') in Unknown on line 0

Anyway this error is probably related to a bad plugin.

edited on: 07-08-04 15:25

I am running Win2K, php version 4.3.9, MySQL version 4.0.18, wordpress version 1.2.2

Neither of the following files will open in firefox0.8 and NS7,

wp-rss2.php wp-commentsrss2.php

I get the following error message:

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"XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity" Location: ... wp-rss2.php Line Number 2, Column 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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No error is produced in IE6 or Opera7.

I have searched the wordpress support forums and see that this is not an uncommon problem. I have tried to find a way to remove the space before "<?xml" but being brand new to php, really do not understand enough about php coding to get very far at all. I do not see a solution that I understand listed there.

I hope this is enough but not too much information.

-ejm

edited on: 02-04-05 22:12

I located a fix for this in the wordpress support forums http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=13097

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for rss2 - open the file wp-rss2.php from the wp root for commentsrss2 - open file pwp-commentsrss2.php from wp root

find

header('Content-type: text/xml', true);

and replace with

header('Content-type: application/xml', true);

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This has resolved the problem for wp-rss2.php and wp-commentsrss2.php and this issue is now mostly resolved. Thank you.

-ejm

edit: the fix does not appear to work for wp-rss.php

edited on: 02-05-05 10:35

edited on: 02-05-05 10:46

Without fail this is ALWAYS due to a plugin extra whitespace or whitespace in a user-edited file like wp-config.php.