Title: Atom feed error: ‘undefined root element’
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Atom feed error: ‘undefined root element’

 *  [achillea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achillea/)
 * (@achillea)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/atom-feed-error-undefined-root-element/)
 * Updating to 1.0 got rid of most of the errors the first attempt at validation
   turned up (thanks Kafkaesqui!), and now only two remain. The first of those two
   says:
 * Undefined root element: br
 * Can I safely remove that, or will doing so cause something vital to implode?

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 * [atom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/atom/)
 * [element](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/element/)
 * [root](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/root/)
 * [undefined](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/undefined/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [achillea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achillea/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/atom-feed-error-undefined-root-element/)
 * Status: not resolved

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