By sedmi on

I have a problem with my rss feeds.

When I follow link to /rss.xml with Firefox it asks whether I want to open or save it. If I choose open with Firefox it says: ...\temp\rss.xml could not be opened, because an unknown error occurred. Try saving to disk and then opening the file.

When I try to open it with IE 8 it says: This feed contains code errors. Under more info it says: Invalid xml declaration.
Line: 3 Character: 3
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

There are no problems with Safari.

How could I fix this?

I'm subscribed to my feeds and receive them normally.

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sedmi commented

Update: when I change RSS publishing settings to titles only it works fine, but if I select titles plus teasers or full text it breaks again.
Any ideas?

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sedmi commented

Bump! Did anyone experienced similar problem with RSS feeds?

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sedmi commented

When i save it to local and then open in firefox i get error: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity.

Two first lines of code are empty. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> is on third line, so that is causing errors.

How could i fix this? Why are two first lines empty when feeds are set to teasers or full text, but if set to titles only everything is okay?

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rbishop commented

i have same problem. displays fine in safari not firefox

i re-themed template_preprocess_views_view_rss and changed to Content-Type: application/xml
and i see i have an extra space possibly at the beginning of the xml file.
dont know where to begin to look for that

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rsanan-1 commented

Same issue here! but only with some of my sites-
On opening the xml file there is a lot of white space on top!

UPDATE - I found 2 custom modules (that we developed) that had spaces after the closing php tag (?>). Removing those took care of the problem

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culturehub commented

How about the rest of you? Are you still seeing this issue? I have ever since I did some major upgrades (PHP, Drupal core, all modules). I'm still looking for the cause. I tried disabling all my contributed modules and themes, but no luck.

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rout commented

i was hoping an upgrade to 6.16 would fix it, but no such luck

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rout commented

found a space after ?> in the theme's template.php file...removed it and now the issue is resolved.

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culturehub commented

template.php in a custom theme? I thought RSS feeds didn't go through the normal theming process?

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BigTuna commented

Spaces at the bottom of the template.php file was also the culprit in my case. Thanks.

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sarathkm
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commented

It mostly due to spaces at start of module file before <?php or template not closing the tag. To find the culprit. Mostly it is module file so...
grep -R -H '^ <?php' modules/**/*.module
This will check all module files withing your module folder ( i am a step back in my sites/all folder in my linux terminal to find culprit.)
If you find two spaces leave two space between ^ and <?php, if one space leave one.
you will get the path of file which is culprit.

If you just get the filename you can find its path via
locate -br 'culprit.module'

After correcting clear cache. :)

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