feed error

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  leticiamaguire · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 3:59 am

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  I’m using a theme from wordpress. When I clicked on the feed ‘posts’ button at the top of the page, it went to an IE error page, and said it cannot display feed – “This feed contains code errors”.

  I haven’t adjusted the code at all. I tried changing themes to see if it was just the particular theme I’d chosen, but I got the same error again. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:01 am

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  The site linked to your name isn’t a WordPress.com blog and we won’t be able to help you with that. If you have a blog that’s hosted here, please give us a link to it, starting with http.

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  leticiamaguire · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:02 am

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  oh. sorry. it’s http://leticiamaguire.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 am

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  Hmm, I’m not getting any errors on the feed using Google Reader. Can you try it again and see if it was a temporary blip? I know staff were tinkering behind the scenes today and that might have affected it.

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  leticiamaguire · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:11 am

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  Just tried again, and got the IE ‘cannot display this feed’ thing again. I got “more information”, and it says:

  An invalid character was found in text content.
  Line: 42 Character: 25

  I have not much idea about coding, so I don’t know what is on Line 42, char 25 (!?)
  However, I don’t want to subscribe to my own feed anyway, but I was worried that other people would get that error. I’m glad you didn’t see an error.

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  leticiamaguire · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:13 am

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  ps: the ‘comment’ feed seems to be working, no problems.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:23 am

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  You have some “illegal” characters either in posts or somewhere on your blog and those need to be fixed.

  First off, go to settings > reading and toward the bottom make sure character encoding is set to UTF-8. Anything else will cause issues on the web, and especially with RSS feeds.

  Next go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and click save changes.

  Now start opening your posts one at a time in the post editor, make one minor change like adding a space and then deleting it, and then click update post. and check your feed here: http://validator.w3.org/feed/ .

  Your feed address is http://leticiamaguire.wordpress.com/feed .

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:24 am

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  Keep correcting your posts one by one as described above until the feed validates.

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  leticiamaguire · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:45 am

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  YAY it worked, thank you SO much for your help, I appreciate it immensely!!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 4:48 am

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  I’m glad that did it for you, and you are very welcome.

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  raptortech97 · Member · Sep 9, 2009 at 10:05 pm

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  Should I be worried? http://validator.w3.org/feed/ says this:
  This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
line 113, column 0: style attribute contains potentially dangerous content: position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px; (16 occurrences) [help]
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;h ...
line 175, column 0: content:encoded should not contain script tag (2 occurrences) [help]
<div class="PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container1944061">< ...