RSS2 in V1

0bvious

I upgraded from pre1 to v1 today and there are still a few bugs I noticed, especially where add-ons are concerned. The main one which stood out though was the RSS2 feeds. I get this error:

XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location: http://www.huge-entity.com/forum/?Feed=RSS2
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Hmmm. Any idea what's gone wry?

Mark

First of all, this isn't really a vanilla bug, it's an add-on bug. The core is what has been thoroughly tested for bugs and completely cleaned up. The add-ons are another thing altogether.

Now, did you get the latest version of the addon from lussumo.com/addons?

Shino

See BOM with UTF-8 it's a problem mais if you save files with BOM UTF-8 it's good ;)

0bvious

I managed to get it working by messing around with some file permissions. Not exactly sure what shifted it. I realise the Vanilla core is very stable, here's hoping all the addons get updated soon

0bvious

I have been having problems using the RSS2 feed for anything other than subscription.

For instance, I would like to use the feed in conjunction with feed2js and have updated posts show in my blog sidebar. Errors abound:

Error: Feed failed! Causes may be (1) No data found for RSS feed http://www.huge-entity.com/forum/?Feed=RSS2; (2) There are no items are available for this feed; (3) The RSS feed does not validate.

Also, trying to feed the RSS2 into a feedburner account brings up errors:

The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

I get the same kind of errors with all the variety of uses I have tried... Any ideas?

0bvious

P.S. I used to do a whole heap of stuff with the old Atom feed in pre1 versions...

Cheers

Mark

I think we need a feed expert to fix up those extensions. I should contact my buddy franklin_mint. He wrote part of the spec for atom.

0bvious

Any feed experts wanna chip in?

0bvious

bumpety bump Seems silly having rss if it can't be used for anything. Any chance of working through this issue? I'm stumped...

Mr K

I'm going to be making use of the RSS feed soon on a new site I'm developing that is making use of Vanilla to drive the bulk of it It'll be cruical that the RSS feeds work ... so I might end up going through the code and seeing if I can find somethign .... I'll let you know if I spot anything when I get to it (hopefully this weekend)

0bvious

thanks for that... my rss/php knowledge is lower than zero, so any help is much appreciated

franklin_mint

OK dude, I'll take a look.

0bvious

I have noticed a recent upsurge in RSS related posts on this forum. Any progress franklin_mint?

STE7130

hmpf ... its an extension problem of digg, wightwords, Audioscrobblerizer. deaktivate the extensions, the rss will be fine. but, thats not a solution. the extenesions add a blank line to the rss/atom feed in the first line.

jimw

What would add the extra line?

iambigred

I have no idea, I can't figure it out. Perhaps the first blank line could be removed within the feed extensions?

MethCat

As I said on the other thread (XML parsing error), this worked for me for Audioscrobblerizer: Split the default.php into two 1) the part the Alex wrote & 2) a lastRSS.php file Then added a line to default.php after the extension information: require ('lastRSS.php'); I then put both files in the Audiscrobbler folder and then re-enabled the extension. Job's a good un.

akb

uhm... i got this xml declaration error even with all (!) extensions but the corresponding feed extension disabled. any idea? :-/ i did not change anything but editing themes/head.php to point to my own favicon (which should not add any line at all). have a clean vanilla1 install with todays revisions of the plugins.

akb

mhhh... sorry for pushing this, but isnt there anyone who can help me with this? :-(

strawberries

i am no expert akb, so i am just thinking out loud here - but did you also do a clean database install with your new vanilla installation?

akb

uhm... no, that wasnt possible, because the forums quite big and got thousands (!) of threads...