XML Parsing Error

Hi there.

I’m new to the wonderful world of MODx, and I’m looking forward very much to contributing to the ongoing development of the project in whatever way I can!

I have found a little bug though... I’ve just done a new install of MODx, and set up my site title to be ’Astetix Design & Print’. When I click on the ’Blog Entries (RSS)’ link in the footer I get the following error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://astetix.hazoom.com/pagefeed.html
Line Number 5, Column 25:
<title>Astetix Design & Print | RSS Feeds</title>
---------------------^

I’m guessing that the ampersand I’ve used in the site title has screwed up the RSS output module. I don’t know enough about the RSS format to know why this would be a problem, but it obviously is...

Is there a fix/workaround for this? I’m guessing that there aren’t that many people using ampersands in their titles, but it is the registered name of my business so I’d like to do it right!

Thanks in advance!

Paul

First read my disclaimer below.

Have you tried replacing the "&" with "&amp;"?

What snippet are you using for the RSS feeds?

Have you tried Ditto?

Boby

Hi Astetix, you also need change the page with the feed so that it uses the blank template.

@jaredc: changing it to &amp; stops that error, but generates this one instead

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://astetix.hazoom.com/pagefeed.html
Line Number 83, Column 282: <a href="javascript:;" onclick="javascript: QE_OpenEditor(11, ’content’, 1);" onmouseover="javascript: QE_HighlightContent(this);" onmouseout="javascript: QE_UnhighlightContent(this);" title="Edit Document content" class="QE_Link" style="display:none;">&laquo; Edit content</a><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^ (arrow pointing to red character in above source)


@Boby: using whatever the default is in the ’Default Template’.

@garryn: can’t figure this one out... Would you mind detailing how I go about doing this?


Cheers for the lighting fast replies guys! Just stopped using MicroCMS for a client site, and they took six weeks to respond to my only post on their forum!!

Paul

Astetix, the errors are being caused because the XML RSS information is being inserted into a HTML template and that isn’t good.

Edit your RSS page in the MODx Manager, and select ’Blank Template’ from the template dropdown box. Save your changes and that should sort out the errors.

Quote from: garryn at Sep 01, 2006, 09:56 AM

Astetix, the errors are being caused because the XML RSS information is being inserted into a HTML template and that isn’t good.

Edit your RSS page in the MODx Manager, and select ’Blank Template’ from the template dropdown box. Save your changes and that should sort out the errors.

Yup, you were right...

Thanks for the input everybody! I’ve already started work on a couple of new templates... Watch this space!

Paul