Title: RSS Feed Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSS Feed Error

 *  Resolved [katoak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katoak/)
 * (@katoak)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-17/)
 * Having some issues with the RSS feed link. When I subscribe via Google Reader,
   everything works just fine, otherwise, I receive the following errors…
 * When I attempt to resolve it via the web browser:
    XML Parsing Error: XML or 
   text declaration not at start of entity Location: [http://www.seattlecoffeegear.dreamhosters.com/blog/feed/](http://www.seattlecoffeegear.dreamhosters.com/blog/feed/)
   Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^ When I attempt
   to swap it out for the older source URL for my Feedburner account: The URL does
   not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem:
   Error on line 3: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is
   not allowed.
 * I’m not incredibly familiar with XML; I have poked around the .php files that
   reference this icon/URL, but can’t seem to find out how I can fix this. Anyone
   have any ideas on how I can resolve?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Cathy Mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multitalentedmommy/)
 * (@multitalentedmommy)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-17/#post-1055319)
 * I saw the error too, do you have permalinks set up? the feed is written in the
   header as:
    mydomain.com/blog/feed/ that will work for custom permalinks. Why
   don’t you go into the header of your theme templates, and change that link-rel:
   rss+xml to: `<?php bloginfo('rss_url');?>`
 *  Thread Starter [katoak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katoak/)
 * (@katoak)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-17/#post-1055353)
 * Thanks for the response!
 * Yes, I have permalinks setup. After I put your suggestion in place, it changed
   the error:
 * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
    Location: 
   [http://www.seattlecoffeegear.dreamhosters.com/blog/feed/rss/](http://www.seattlecoffeegear.dreamhosters.com/blog/feed/rss/)
   Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><!– generator=”
   WordPress/2.7.1″ –> ^
 * Any ideas?

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