RSS Feed not validating

[matthisco]

H Ifolks,

I'm trying to validate my feed but keep getting problems can anyone see how I can fix this?

I have replaced the '=' with &##61; but it doesnt seem to like it for some reason.

This feed does not validate.

line 15, column 97: XML parsing error: <unknown>:15:97: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]
... age&#61;view-announcement&announcementid&#61;105</link>

[Matt Gifford]

@matthisco

what's the feed address/url you're trying to process?
Are all ampersands converted to &?

[matthisco]

Thanks for your reply here is the link:

<link> http://intranet/?area&##61;announcements/index&page&##61;view&##45;announcement&announcementid&##61;...

Here is the link without special charactors:

<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=#id#</link>

[Matt Gifford]

Can you send me a sample (the first 30+ lines if not all) of the actual XML?

Cheers

[matthisco]

Thanks for your replies.

My xml is attached

Thanks again

[Matt Gifford]

@matthisco

thanks for the xml.

I ran through it, and it now validates (according to feedvalidator.org).
There are still a few recommendations that _could_ be added, but it works.

Here's the result:

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>title</title>
<link> http://intranet/</link>
<description>Announcements</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:20:15 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<item>
<title>Launch Event of Sandwell's Primary Care Strategy</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Sandwell's Primary Care Strategy is being launched&nbsp;on&nbsp;Tuesday March&nbsp;31st&nbsp;which will provide you with the opportunity to find out the plans for primary care of the coming year.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=111</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>REMINDER - High Street Closure</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Please remember that West Bromwich High Street will be closed to traffic 12noon - 3pm today.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=110</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Unison AGM - Sandwell Health Branch</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the author of Unison is being held on Thursday 26th February.&lt;br /&gt;
&nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=109</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Telephone Lines at Vision Point </title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Telephone Lines Down at Vision Point&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=108</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Creditor Payment Section - call times </title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Creditor Payment Section - telephone call times &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=107</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Telephone Lines at Vision Point </title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Problem with phone lines.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=106</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lidl Car Parking</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;From Monday other than authorised users (they know who they are) no member of PCT&nbsp;staff should park on the Lidl Car Park.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=105</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) Training </title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) Training&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=104</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>High Street CLOSURE - Weds 18th Feb</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;West Bromwich High Street will be closed to traffic 12noon - 3pm on Wednesday 18th February 2009.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=103</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Food Policy Team have moved</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The Food Policy Team have moved - here are their new contact details.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<link> http://intranet/?area=announcements/index&page=view-announcement&announcementid=102</link>
<author>email@yourdomain.com</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

I changed the ASCII characters back to '-' and '='. The main thing throwing issues was the ampersand near every 'announcementID' in each item link. The others were formatted to &, wheareas the announcementID just used '&'.

I hope this helps.
Any more problems, let me know.

Matt

[matthisco]

I can't thank you enough for that!

Thats great!

Thanks again!

Matt