XML won't validate

Thanks again for your replies folks.

I have this working to an extent, but its very touch and go, its still doesnt like certain charactors.

The xml document is created from a database query, which holds user generated content. Ideally I would like to store the data in the xml document without any formatting, but I need a least paragraph tags.

Can you guys think of a way aorund this?

Is there a way I can store the formatting in xml?

Thanks again

<?xml version="1.0" mencoding="UTF-8" ?>

What's a "memcoding"?

;-)

one of the easiest ways to spot these sort of thngs is to browse to the XML file in a browser. Firefox pointed the exact location of the problem instantly.

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Adam

Its throwing this error now:

Line File name: Nonexistent
1 Column: 52
Error: Can not find declaration of element 'items'.
Error Position:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><items>

Thanks for all your help.

I've done your suggestions but still getting problems, code attached

Sounds to me like you have some whitespace before your XML declaration line. There has to be NO space at all. So make sure you don't have a carriage return or anything like that in your code that's adding space.

Looks like there's funky characters in the title. I'm not sure if that is causing CFs XML parser to get upset.

To play it safe, wrap all your text with a CDATA block.

E.g.:
<title><![CDATA[ this is my title ]]></title>
<summary><![CDATA[ .... ]]></summary>
etc...

How are you using this XML? Post the code that is throwing this error, please.

Thnaks for your reply.

I've changed that but now get the error, any ideas?

Line File name: Nonexistent
2 Column: 7
Error: Processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
Error Position:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

Your XML declaration is wrong. You have this:
<xml version="1.0">

It should be this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>