RSS Feed Validation Issue
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I recently launched a new version of my site (DivvyHQ.com) and my URL structure changed a bit from the previous version. When I went to Feedburner to update my feed URL, I received the following:
The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 269: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.
Hmmm…So I went to the W3C Feed Validator to analyze the issue. The validator returned 9 errors, all of which appear to be resulting from the HTML5 jquery player code that loads from the shortcode. Here’s a copy of the error report, but it would seem that the last error (line 269) is the main issue.
Sorry…This feed does not validate.
line 72, column 2: Undefined item element: style (3 occurrences) [help]
<style type=”text/css”>.buy{ display:none !important;} .rating{ right:10px …
^
line 72, column 414: item contains more than one link [help]
… { display:none !important;} </style> <link href=”http://divvyhq.com/w …
^
line 72, column 414: Unexpected media attribute on link element [help]
… { display:none !important;} </style> <link href=”http://divvyhq.com/w …
^
line 72, column 414: Unexpected rel attribute on link element [help]
… { display:none !important;} </style> <link href=”http://divvyhq.com/w …
^
line 72, column 414: Unexpected href attribute on link element [help]
… { display:none !important;} </style> <link href=”http://divvyhq.com/w …
^
line 72, column 414: Unexpected type attribute on link element [help]
… { display:none !important;} </style> <link href=”http://divvyhq.com/w …
^
line 72, column 564: link must be a full and valid URL: [help]
… /css” rel=”stylesheet” media=”screen” />
^
line 73, column 4: Undefined item element: script (2 occurrences) [help]
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://divvyhq.com/wp-content/plugin …
^
line 269, column 42: XML parsing error: <unknown>:269:42: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]
var index = (current + 1 < myPlaylist.length) ? current + 1 : 0;– End of report
So…Need a little help here. Not sure how to proceed in order to get this cleaned up and validated. I’m not a programmer, so go easy on me. I know enough to be dangerous.
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