Title: RSS parse error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS parse error

 *  [poper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poper/)
 * (@poper)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-parse-error/)
 * Hi
    RSS feed reports the following error: `XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
   Location: http://pop-page.com/articulos/wp-rss2.php Line Number 29, Column 2:
   < ? recentTopics(); ...</description> -^ The weird thing is that my index.php
   doesn’t contain any < ? recentTopics(); > Before that, another similar error 
   was shown, it always put a ‘blank’ space between < and ?, although in the index.
   php code there’s no blank space. Feed Validator also reports ([http://www.feedvalidator.org/?url=http://pop-page.com/articulos/wp-rss2.php](http://www.feedvalidator.org/?url=http://pop-page.com/articulos/wp-rss2.php))
   a ‘Your feed appears to be encoded as “utf-8”, but your server is reporting “
   US-ASCII”‘ error. I searched the forum but I get no answer. I haven’t touched
   wp-rss2.php. RDF and Atom feeds work fine. Any idea? Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [poper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poper/)
 * (@poper)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-parse-error/#post-85295)
 * But in the index.php code there’s no space, that the weird thing! It seems the
   blank space is generated by ‘something’.
    Thanks for the second question answer.

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