Title: XML Feed Parsing Errors
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# XML Feed Parsing Errors

 *  Resolved [BAC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bac-1/)
 * (@bac-1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-parsing-errors/)
 * Hi,
 * I am not able to successfully parse the Broadbean XML file. The Response is returning“
   Sorry username and/or password are not valid.” Which is the same response error
   message I get when visiting the mydomain.com/?wpbb=broadbean (which I also notice
   is also returning a “500 Internal Server Error” when visiting mydomain.com/?wpbb
   =broadbean).
 * The following error messages appear in the CPanel Error logs:
 * > [error] PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /wp-content/plugins/wpbroadbean/
   > wpbb-inbox.php on line 20
   > [error] PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): xml=<?xml version="1.0" encoding
   > ="UTF-8"?> in /wp-content/plugins/wpbroadbean/wpbb-inbox.php on line 20
   > [error] PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error :
   > Start tag expected, ‘<‘ not found in /wp-content/plugins/wpbroadbean/wpbb-inbox.
   > php on line 20
 * Line 20 refers to
 *     ```
       19 /* parse the retrieved xml file */
       20 $wpbb_params = json_decode( json_encode( simplexml_load_string( $wpbb_xml_content ) ), 1 );
       ```
   
 * Sounds like an encoding or malformed XML, but its pretty difficult to debug.
 * Any help would be much appreciated!
 * Ben
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbroadbean/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbroadbean/)

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 *  Thread Starter [BAC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bac-1/)
 * (@bac-1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-parsing-errors/#post-5387903)
 * Update:
    I managed to solve this issue. We are using a feed designed for a different
   plugin and the XML is received `URLENCODED` with a pesky `XML=` preceding the
   XML content, which `simplexml_load_string()` choked on.
 * The simple fix was to `urldecode` the XML string, then `itrim` out `"xml="`.
 * Working (simplified) code:
 *     ```
       $wpbb_xml_content = trim(file_get_contents( 'php://input' ));
   
       $wpbb_xml_content = urldecode($wpbb_xml_content);
   
       $wpbb_xml_content = ltrim($wpbb_xml_content, "xml=");
       ```
   
 * I also added `LIBXML_NOCDATA` to the `simplexml_load_string()` param.
 * `$wpbb_params = json_decode( json_encode( simplexml_load_string( $wpbb_xml_content,'
   SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA ) ), 1 );`
 * Cheers,
    Ben
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Wilkinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmarkuk/)
 * (@wpmarkuk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-parsing-errors/#post-5387904)
 * Hi Ben, glad you found a solution. I did test the plugin by sending a feed and
   did not get the same results, however I thin you have covered this in your comments
   above.
 * One thing I would say is not to make changes to the plugin code itself. Obviously
   if an update to another feature arrives before any changes to what you have outlined
   above, updating your plugin would loose those changes.
 * The plugin does provide a way of using your own `inbox.php` file to parse the
   feed. You can include this in your theme in a folder named `wpbb`. This will 
   then be used instead of the one in the plugin and will protect you from updates.
 * Take a look here for how this is done in the plugin:
 * [https://github.com/wpmark/wpbroadbean/blob/master/wpbroadbean.php#L60-L71](https://github.com/wpmark/wpbroadbean/blob/master/wpbroadbean.php#L60-L71)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Wilkinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmarkuk/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-parsing-errors/#post-5387904)
 * Status: resolved