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17 April 2003

Does anyone have any clue as to why my rss feed doesn’t validate?

Update: thanks to some helpful comments (see link below), my feed now validates

- Drew McLellan

Comments

  1. § Jim Hughes: Try inserting

    <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”iso-8859-1”?>

    as a first line, otherwise it looks ok to me.
  2. § Drew: Thanks, Jim. I’ll give that a go.
  3. § Sam Buchanan: Do add the line Jim suggested, but that may not be enough. This is weird, I don’t know offhand why it helps, but remove the title=”” from the first line in your Mozilla 1.4 entry. Or make it title=” ”.

    Too, in your ”Microsoft quits W3C panel” post, replace the &amp;nbsp; with regular spaces in the title attribute of the Infoworld link. Those seem to be causing problems.
  4. § Drew: Thanks, Sam. That did it. RSS now validates.
  5. § Terry Nazon: I did my RSS feed on RSS dreamfeeder…it won’t validate…where can a person get help?

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.