RSS just stopped working.

[thegorilla]

Looking through some other posts, It may be the Ampersand I had in the title of my new post that may have caused a problem. I have changed that with no luck. Firefox and Shrook do not load my RSS at all. I have 1.3 and ensured that I have the new RSS update. It was great until yesterday. Any Ideas? http://www.greyscalegorilla.com

Thanks for any help,
Nick

[Connie]

Not so many ideas, but a lot of information :evil:

1)
open your site in OPERA and click on the RSS-Link, you will get the following:

greyscalegorilla http://greyscalegorilla.com/ greyscalegorilla photoblog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss pixelpost No Neurostimulators http://greyscalegorilla.com/?showimage=20 <img src="http://greyscalegorilla.com/thumbnails/thumb_strongmagneticfield.jpg" align="right"> I had a headache all day today. I just wasn't myself. I only took about 30 bad photos today (none of the statue shots turned out Laura,) so here is another one from Wednesday. It is from a hospital on Division that I absolutely love. Im sure I will have more posts from the hospital soon as I am always making it a point shooting there. <br> <br />It has come to my attention that my RSS feed suddenly stopped working. I am trying to sort through this now. If any of you programmers have any ideas why its bad, please drop me an Email (thegorilla@greyscalegorilla.com). Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:31:00 -0800 Lyon And Healy http://greyscalegorilla.com/?showimage=19
XML-Interpretation fehlgeschlagen: Formulierung nicht korrekt (Zeile: 21, Zeichen: 98 )


the english version of OPERA would tell you that there is a syntax-error in your XML in line 21, character 98

2)

another hint:

open your site in FIREFOX (have the developer extensions loaded):
click on PREVIOUS, than when "http://www.greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?showimage=19" is loaded, choose: VALIDATE HTML

you will get such a lot of errors, so it is obvious that syntax-dependant functionality will go wrong :evil:

one example:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.greyscalegorilla.com/index.php?x=rss">
your DOCTYPE is XML, so you must close standalone-tags....

what is this?

<!- <SITE_PHOTONUMBER photos | <SITE_VISITORNUMBER visitors>

you open comments, but you don't close them, you use TEMPLATE-Variables, but you don't close them...

I think you should look at your pages, clear the code, check with FIREFOX, OPERA, Validators, not only Microsoft...

when the code is cleaned I am sure the XML-Interpretation of the RSS-feed will work

[thegorilla]

Looks like an ampersand in my filename screwed stuff up. Thanks for your help. Should be all set now.

[Connie]

well, special characters are always dangerous in filenames, as well as blanks...

could you fix some of the valdidation-errors?