Title: XML erorrs while validating – Please Help!!!!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XML erorrs while validating – Please Help!!!!

 *  Resolved [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-erorrs-while-validating-please-help/)
 * I keep getting XML parsing errors when I try to validate my blog ([test.webmeba.com](http://test.webmeba.com))
 * Errors such as….
    **# Error Line 227, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: Couldn’t
   find end of Start Tag a line 227.**
 * </h2></…
 * ✉
    # Error Line 227, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch:
   h2 line 227 and a.
 * </h2></…
 * Each time I write a new post, a new error appears?
 * Is there a problem in my loop?
 * Help!

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 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-erorrs-while-validating-please-help/#post-645484)
 * You’ve got HTML errors up the wazoo.
 * Most frequent problem I see: Image tags are self closing. Write this:
 * `<img src="" alt="" />`
 * NOT this:
    `<img src="" alt="">...</img>`
 * And that alt=”” is required by the version of html you’re using.
 * Go through your template and make sure all tags are actually closed (looks like
   a few aren’t).
 * Also make sure all attributes are spaced. Here’s one other bad example:
 * `<a href="http://test.webmeba.com/?p=57"title="Google Attacks Yaho......`
 * should be
 * `<a href="http://test.webmeba.com/?p=57" title="Google Attacks Yaho........`
 *  Thread Starter [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-erorrs-while-validating-please-help/#post-645500)
 * Thanks for the tip about spacing!
 * I managed to fix around 30 errors 🙂 .
 * However I still have a few weird XML problems like this one
 * **Error Line 318, Column 7: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch:
   div line 60 and body.**
 * </body>
    ———————————- # Error Line 283, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: attributes
   construct error .
 * …padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”[http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailv…](http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailv…)
 * ✉
    # Error Line 283, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: Couldn’t find end of Start
   Tag input line 283 .
 * …padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”[http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailv…](http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailv…)
 * Any ideas?
 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-erorrs-while-validating-please-help/#post-645605)
 * I’m seeing different errors, so you must have continued working on it. The two
   biggies:
 * If your “search webmeba” thing, you’ve got something like this (condensed here):
 *     ```
       <ul>
       <form>
       ...
       </form>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * What are those `<ul>` tags doing there?
 * Later on, in the “subscribe to webmeba” section, you’ve got something like this:
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar-email"><p><form ...>...</form></p>
       ```
   
 * Get rid of that `<p>` before `<form>` (and its companion `</p>` after `</form
   >` and close that div.
 * You may want to check out the [w3c xhtml tutorial](http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp).

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 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)
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 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

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 * Last reply from: [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-erorrs-while-validating-please-help/#post-645605)
 * Status: resolved

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