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Several of my sites show error in feed when checking validation here: https://validator.w3.org/feed/
Does yours give errors or am I the only one?
I recieve a lot of errors on my feeds?
Several of my sites show error in feed when checking validation here: https://validator.w3.org/feed/
Does yours give errors or am I the only one?
Huh... now that's weird, Fleeky... 'cause I'm getting the very same prompt:
"It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn't find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate."
Even those WordPress sites hosted elsewhere are showing the same prompt... weird...
And, just to be certain, I even asked Google if W3C could validate a WordPress site... see screen print below.
Wonder if it has something to do with the issues being discussed about WordPress... I dunno'... this IS odd though.
Some are ok though...
Others show error in code...
Did you, check several sites or just one
I checked all... some ok, some not, and some ok but errors in code and in need of improvement
In honesty... I checked 2 hosted elsewhere and 1 hosted here... and ALL of them showed the same prompted state above.
JUST noticed now... its the "feed" you were checking and I do NOT allow the RSS feed due to so many stealing my content that way.
Yes... indeed...
Can you check with feed... sometimes it is added without you knowing
Most common error is this: Message
XML Parsing error: syntax error
Explanation
Your feed is not well formed according to the XML specification. All feeds must be well-formed XML. In fact, IE7 and the RSS platform in Windows Vista only support feeds that are well-formed XML.
Solution
The text of the error may contain additional helpful details. At a minimum, the actual line and column number where the error was detected will be reported.
The most common cause is encoding errors. There are several basic approaches to solving this: escaping problematic characters (< becomes <, & becomes &, etc.), escaping entire blocks of text with CDATA sections, or putting an encoding declaration at the start of the feed.
Another common error is the inclusion of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) before the XML Declaration. If an XML Declaration is included, it must be the first thing in the document
BUT... it troubles a lot
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Huh... now that's weird, Fleeky... 'cause I'm getting the very same prompt:
"It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn't find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate."
Even those WordPress sites hosted elsewhere are showing the same prompt... weird...
And, just to be certain, I even asked Google if W3C could validate a WordPress site... see screen print below.
Wonder if it has something to do with the issues being discussed about WordPress... I dunno'... this IS odd though.
Some are ok though...
Others show error in code...
Did you, check several sites or just one
I checked all... some ok, some not, and some ok but errors in code and in need of improvement
In honesty... I checked 2 hosted elsewhere and 1 hosted here... and ALL of them showed the same prompted state above.
JUST noticed now... its the "feed" you were checking and I do NOT allow the RSS feed due to so many stealing my content that way.
Yes... indeed...
Can you check with feed... sometimes it is added without you knowing
Most common error is this: Message
XML Parsing error: syntax error
Explanation
Your feed is not well formed according to the XML specification. All feeds must be well-formed XML. In fact, IE7 and the RSS platform in Windows Vista only support feeds that are well-formed XML.
Solution
The text of the error may contain additional helpful details. At a minimum, the actual line and column number where the error was detected will be reported.
The most common cause is encoding errors. There are several basic approaches to solving this: escaping problematic characters (< becomes <, & becomes &, etc.), escaping entire blocks of text with CDATA sections, or putting an encoding declaration at the start of the feed.
Another common error is the inclusion of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) before the XML Declaration. If an XML Declaration is included, it must be the first thing in the document
BUT... it troubles a lot
😝