Title: RSS Feed Validation Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS Feed Validation Problem

 *  [jkmuller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkmuller/)
 * (@jkmuller)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-validation-problem/)
 * Here is what the feed validator shows me:
 *     ```
       This feed does not validate.
   
       line 7, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:7:0: not well-formed (invalid token)
   
       Source: http://www.employmentblawg.com/wp-rss-feedburner.php
   
          1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="wordpress/2.2" -->
          2. <rss version="2.0"
          3. xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
          4. xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
          5. xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
          6.
          7. <channel>
       ```
   
 * Yet, my wp-rss-feedburner.php actually is:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if (empty($feed)) {
       	$blog = 1;
       	$feed = 'rss2';
       	$doing_rss = 1;
       	require('wp-blog-header.php');
       }
   
       header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=' . get_settings('blog_charset'), true);
       $more = 1;
   
       ?>
       <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
       //generator="wordpress/<?php bloginfo_rss('version') ?>"
   
       <rss>
   
       <channel>
       ```
   
 * Why the discrepancy? It’s not a plugin because I’ve disabled them all. I’ve deleted
   the php file, tried to validate it, and it correctly shows that it’s missing.
   However, when I re-upload the file it reverts it back to the erroneous file. 
   What in the world could be doing this?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-validation-problem/#post-571071)
 * What the heck is wp-rss-feedburner.php?!?
 * That’s not part of WordPress.
 *  [jeremycherfas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremycherfas/)
 * (@jeremycherfas)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-validation-problem/#post-571073)
 * I don’t know what it is either, but maybe it will solve [my problem](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119521)?
 *  Thread Starter [jkmuller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkmuller/)
 * (@jkmuller)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-validation-problem/#post-571144)
 * ok. I don’t know what it was either, all I know is that feedburner was using 
   it as the original source. It seems like wp-includes/feed-rss2.php was the actual
   problem. Somehow the closing > was missing of the <RSS> tag, and it was a very
   simple solution. I deleted the wp-rss-feedburner.php file.

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## Tags

 * [feedburner](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/feedburner/)
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 * [validator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validator/)

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jkmuller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkmuller/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-validation-problem/#post-571144)
 * Status: not resolved

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