RSS Feed Broken due to tag

  • Resolved lui_gough

    (@lui_gough)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Dear fellow WP users,

    I’ve had a reader contact me due to a broken RSS feed. At first, I troubleshooted some issues with caching which seemed to be an obvious issue, but then I realized it was something else.

    My feed is at https://goughlui.com/feed and at the moment, it doesn’t pass validation because I have a posting where I use Preformatted Text in my posting for monospaced text.

    As a result, the feed itself has a
    < p r e > tag in it which trips up parsing in Firefox, IE amongst others. I tried to hide this by burying the Preformatted Text under a “read more” break, but it doesn’t stop it from coming up on the RSS feed itself.

    How can I stop this from happening? Do I have to avoid using Preformatted Text altogether?

    Thanks,
    Gough.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I see what you mean: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoughlui.com%2Ffeed%2F

    With the problem in https://goughlui.com/2015/11/26/analysis-freeview-sydney-launch-of-9life-dsm-cc-etc/

    <pre> shouldn’t be a problem, so I suspect something with the characters themselves, or placement.

    Try starting on a different line, like:

    <pre>
4330000131023
UEP(ZIN600040)
UEP(HMX260000)
UEP(LGW005001)
UEP(PMSMTV401)
UEP(CSMHMA102)
UEP(SNYLCD032)
UEP(BWZFVM001)
UEP(LGW015001)
UEP(LGW101001)
UEP(LGW205001)
UEP(LGW305001)
UEP(LGW405001)
UEP(FVATST001)
UEP(ZIN600050)
UEP(SAMMDLE4N)
UEP(SAMMDLE4)
UEP(SAMMDLE7)
UEP(SAMMDLE5)
UEP(SAMMDLF7DB)
UEP(SAMMDLF7)
UEP(SAMMDLF6)
UEP(SAMMDLFX4)
UEP(SAMMDLFN4)
DSM://exclude/a1100000R1000CdefN100Papp01/epg/104/epg/APNCRLapp01
DSM://p/a
</pre>

    If that doesn’t work, re-type 4330000131023, as there could be a hidden invalid character there.

    Thread Starter lui_gough

    (@lui_gough)

    Thanks James,

    It was indeed several occurrences of two different non-printing control characters which snuck into the data. Once I removed them, the feed validated correctly.

    Your help was much appreciated!

    – Gough

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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