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

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. 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.

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

could you fix some of the valdidation-errors?