This feed does not validate

  • Hi guys.
    First of all, i have read all the others topics, forums and issues i could find on google, but nothing works for me.

    my website is https://www.obit8.com and my feed has a problem.
    I have tryed to disable all the plugin, activate the standard theme but nothing, the same error.

    This feed does not validate.

line 1, column 38: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:38: syntax error [help]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>>
                                      ^
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.

"text/xml" media type is not specific enough [help]

    The only thing i can see is that i have 2 >> instead of 1, but i can’t find any php file containing that row.
    I’ve checked feed-rss.php, feed-rss2.php, rss comment, config.php, function.php….and all the others php file i could find.
    I’ve deleted all the blank space i could see after the >? tag (or ?>)but nothing.

    Please, could you help me??? Thanks

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  • I

    (@iahmed-1)

    This is happening because you are using a caching system. You can see it yourself in the response headers.

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:40:52 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
X-LiteSpeed-Cache: hit <---------- clear this cache
Content-Length: 70977
X-Pingback: https://www.obit8.com/xmlrpc.php
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:11:56 GMT
ETag: "a24bbbcf197453e1fad8af0229dc310f"
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

    There is no sign of a caching plugin on that site and the OP did state that all plugins were deactivated. so if there is caching going on, it is happening at the host’s end – not WP’s.

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    esmi nothing to do, the problem remain the same!

    As you can see.

    i.ahmed i don’t have any caching system activated, and all my plugin are deactived now!

    Can you contact your hosts and ask if they are running any caching on your server?

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    Ok esmi i’ll do it, and if they do it?

    Ask them if they can turn caching off.

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    However until december he was running smoothly!

    Hosts do update servers all of the time, so it’s entirely possible that yours made some recent changes that have negatively impacted your site.

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    How is possible that with firefox i can see the feed and with chrome not??

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    Guys try now, i’ve reactivated all plugin and theme and if i try to validate it, it doesn’t work, but if i go to the link https://www.obit8.com/feed/ i can something now!

    I

    (@iahmed-1)

    Firefox is either serving you a cached version or you already have a session cookie. If you clear your cookies and cache in Firefox (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) and then refresh the page, you will see the error.

    If you have access to curl you can send a dummy post request which will force litespeed to get a live version rather than a cache. I saved the output from this and checked with a feed validator and it does validate.

    ~$ curl --data "dummy" https://www.obit8.com/feed/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
        xmlns:content="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
        xmlns:wfw="https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
        xmlns:dc="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:atom="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
        xmlns:sy="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
        xmlns:slash="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
        >

    So as I said before, your host is using a caching system e.g. varnish, xcache, memcached etc. You need to contact them and ask them to clear it for you or tell you how to do it yourself.

    Thread Starter obit8

    (@obit8)

    Ok i write to Netsons, i’ll wait their answer, but for now the problem is different. As you can see here

    I’m still seeing an invalid feed when I use Firefox.

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