Validating Feed for Feedburner- HELP.

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  aimeeyoung · Member · Dec 20, 2008 at 5:24 am

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  I’m trying to use Feedburner to enable “email to a friend” and other functionality. When I provide my address, http://brandsaredead.wordpress.com I get the following message:

  Sorry

  This feed does not validate.

  line 1, column 30: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:30: XML declaration not well-formed [help]

  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=””?>
  ^
  Source: http://brandsaredead.wordpress.com/feed/

  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=””?>

  How do I fix that line of code and what should I use to fix it?

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  aimeeyoung · Member · Dec 20, 2008 at 6:29 am

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  In wordpress i see: xml parsing error.

  Thanks for your help!

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  lakeshamurray · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 1:34 pm

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  what did u do to fix it? i have the same problem. not tech saavy either.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 5:32 pm

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  According to this validator, you feed fully validates: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrandsaredead.wordpress.com%2Ffeed%2F

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  timethief · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 6:36 pm

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  Take note that “email to a friend” and offering “email updates to subscribers” are different. The latter choice is available for wordpress.com blogs and is easily set up following these instructions
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/
  The former requires a work around which is described here http://shongjog.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/automatically-create-email-this-features-for-wordpresscom-blog-posts-using-the-one-click-feedburner-bookmarklet/