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naptar
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There seems to be a problem with the RSS feeds. They will no longer validate. Thanks.
line 1, column 1: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:1: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]

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

[Oct 15, 2008, 5:00:04 AM] [193.6.218.9]

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GardenCityLibrary
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Yes, anyone know when we might anticipate a fix? This is an important feature for our library. Thanks!

[Oct 15, 2008, 2:10:30 PM] [209.161.25.62]

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Could you please post a link to the feed in question?

My first guess is that you probably have some ampersands in your event titles, which always seem to cause a problem even if we escape them (pesky XML)

If you post some links I'll check into it for you.
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[Oct 15, 2008, 5:29:56 PM] [171.159.64.10]

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Well, this is my RSS
http://www.localendar.com/public/GardenCityLibrary?style=M3

which I feed into the front page of my website. But the feed is not working.

This is what I see where that feed should be:
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://www.localendar.com/public/GardenCityLibrary?style=M3
Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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[Oct 15, 2008, 8:40:58 PM] [67.60.35.7]

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Would you believe that in a recent change, a single space was added to the beginning of the feed, and that threw things off? Not even a space in between any elements; literally the first character of the feed was a space. " <xml..." instead of "<xml..."

Computers are amazing inflexible sometimes. devilish

Anyway, problem fixed and you should be good-to-go.
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[Oct 15, 2008, 11:04:31 PM] [67.86.148.33]

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