Title: Curious Feed Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Curious Feed Problem

 *  Resolved [futureprogress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureprogress/)
 * (@futureprogress)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/)
 * My feed validates:
    [http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A//futureprogress.net/feed/](http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A//futureprogress.net/feed/)
 * However when I view my feed through a browser (FF2 or IE7) I receive tag mismatch
   errors:
    [http://futureprogress.net/feed/](http://futureprogress.net/feed/)
 * Curious-er still, the line #s of the tag mismatch errors change which seems to
   be randomly (hit f5 a bunch of times and watch the line #s change).
 * While viewing my feed via feedburner (which was pinged and has the latest) I 
   see the same tag mismatch errors with line # flucuation.
 * Now, when validating the feedburner version I get one warning “Image link doesn’t
   match channel link” but it still validates:
    [http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/gabrielkent/futureprogress](http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/gabrielkent/futureprogress)
 * I poked around the code to see what I could and nothing stuck out…all looks well.
   Plus I haven’t edited any of the WP core files (just themes and plugins).
 * So…at this point I am at a loss, anyone see this before or perhaps have some 
   insight into this issue?
 * Any help is much appreciated…cause this is quite curious.
 * Thanks…
 * >||;]

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 *  Thread Starter [futureprogress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureprogress/)
 * (@futureprogress)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546453)
 * I have been searching around the forums and it almost all the feed related issues
   are related to niceadminname…which is obviously not the case here…
 * As such I am still quite perplexed. Can anyone help me out with this?
 * Regards…
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546456)
 * What is a “tag mismatch” error?
    Where do I look in your feed to see one?
 *  Thread Starter [futureprogress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureprogress/)
 * (@futureprogress)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546465)
 * Thanks for your time HandySolo….
 * ok so thats the trick…when I view the feed in a browser:
    [http://futureprogress.net/feed/](http://futureprogress.net/feed/)
 * I get:
 *     ```
       XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </description>.
       Location: http://futureprogress.net/feed/
       Line Number 60, Column 5:		</item>
       ------------------^
       ```
   
 * However if I refresh the page a few times the line # and sometimes the tag that
   is mismatched changes, as another example:
 *     ```
       XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </description>.
       Location: http://futureprogress.net/feed/
       Line Number 289, Column 5:		</item>
       ------------------^
       ```
   
 * So it appears to error at random places, though the feed itself validates.
 * Do you see this as well?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546470)
 * Oddly enough, nope. I can’t reproduce it. :-/
 *  Thread Starter [futureprogress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureprogress/)
 * (@futureprogress)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546472)
 * Hmm…so to confirm the feed appears OK in your browser?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546474)
 * Afraid so, tried with FF2.0.0.3, IE7 and Opera 9.2, all on Windows. Refreshed
   multiple times for each.
 * Only issue I have with the feed so far is how dang HUGE it is. :-p
 *  Thread Starter [futureprogress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futureprogress/)
 * (@futureprogress)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546476)
 * haha…ok thanks again Handy 🙂

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curious-feed-problem/#post-546476)
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