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Hey everyone,
I’m getting an error with my rss feed:
“error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty”

My code is:

preload_replace:master_channel_name=“news”}
{exp:rss:feed channel="{master_channel_name}” status=“Homepage Featured|Homepage Secondary|open”}

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=”{encoding}”?>
<rss version=“2.0”
  xmlns:dc=“http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
  xmlns:sy=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
  xmlns:admin=“http://webns.net/mvcb/”
  xmlns:rdf=“http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
  xmlns:content=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”>

  <channel>
 
  <title>{exp:xml_encode}{site_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
  <link>{site_url}</link>
  <description>{channel_description}</description>
  <dc:language>{channel_language}</dc:language>
  <dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
  <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
  <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource=“http://expressionengine.com/” >
 
{exp:channel:entries channel="{master_channel_name}” limit=“10” dynamic=“no” disable=“member_data|pagination” status=“Homepage Featured|Homepage Secondary|open”}
  <item>
    <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
    <link>{title_permalink='news/view'}</link>
    <guid>{title_permalink='news/view'}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[{news_excerpt}]]></description>
    <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
    <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
  </item>
{/exp:channel:entries}
 
  </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

As far as I’m aware, my channel is correct, I have 2 test articles for the news channel, and they show up on the news page http://www.pmartinlaw.com/news . I’m assuming there is something wrong with the first line of the rss code but I can’t seem to figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Feed link is http://www.pmartinlaw.com/feed

Hi,

can you try our default sample code and see if that works for you

{preload_replace:master_channel_name="news"}
{exp:rss:feed channel="{master_channel_name}" status="not closed"}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{encoding}"?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
    xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

    <channel>
    
    <title><![CDATA[{channel_name}]]></title>
    <link>{channel_url}</link>
    <description>{channel_description}</description>
    <dc:language>{channel_language}</dc:language>
    <dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://expressionengine.com/" >
    
{exp:channel:entries channel="{master_channel_name}" limit="10" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|pagination" status="not closed"}
    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[{title}]]></title>
      <link>{title_permalink='news/index'}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink='news/index'}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[{news_excerpt}]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:channel:entries}
    
    </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

What version and build of EE are you using?

Hey that worked! Thanks a lot for the help. This particular one is running off of 2.2.1.
Unless you think it is extremely important to update, I’m not getting paid for these updates and would rather not waste the time.

LOL- I do sympathize.  I would suggest upgrading to 2.3.1 as there have been some security tweaks since 2.2.1.  But it’s really a judgment call if everything else is working.

Glad JH got you squared away!