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I’ve noticed that my RSS is invalid after updating to 2.4.

I get the following error message:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 2 at column 18: attributes construct error
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

If I view the source I get:

<XXML version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"/XXML>
<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/">
...
...
...
...
</rss>

The feed looks fine except the XXML ?

What template are you using for your RSS?

Template type is set to RSS if this is what you mean?

That helps, but also could you paste your template file itself here wrapped in code tags please?

Standard RSS template taken from examples on ExpressionEngine Wiki/User Guide, version 2.4

{preload_replace:master_channel_name="blog_post"}
{exp:rss:feed channel="{master_channel_name}"}
<?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}" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|pagination"}
    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[{title}]]></title>
      <link>{title_permalink='blog'}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink='blog'}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[{contents}]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[{alternative_title}]]></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}

Hello Sean,

I pasted your example into my 2.4 install and it works great.

Do you have any add-ons that deal with RSS?

You might also enable debugging for a little more information.

To turn debugging on please go to your Control Panel and navigate to Admin->System Administration-> Output and Debugging. Please set the last two settings, which are “Display Output Profiler?” and “Display Template Debugging?”, to yes.

I hope this helps, please let me know what you find.

Cheers,

Thanks Shane.  I’ll have a look at my add-ons and try and find the culprit!

Hello Sean,

Great! Let me know what you find!

Cheers,

Just ran into the exact same problem here after upgrading to EE 2.4. Removing the XML declaration line fixes the problem.

Something is replacing “?” with “X”, and “xml” is being uppercased.

No add-ons which do anything with RSS.

Did you find the culprit in your case Sean?

Hey Derek Hogue and Sean.

What did you find Sean? Anything to report?

Cheers,

Just encountered this again on a brand-new EE 2.4 site:

<XXML version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"/XXML>

EE 2.4, Build 20120123
The template type is RSS, and I don’t have PHP enabled, nor is the template cached
PHP 5.3.5 (running as FastCGI)

Hold the phone - it looks like I can track both of my cases directly to the Minimee add-on, specifically with it’s “HTML Minify” option enabled.

Hi Derek,

Sorry to hear Minimee is borking your RSS! Let’s continue this conversation on the devot-ee forum post that you’ve started.

Best,
John

Hey Sean Delaney,

How are things? Can I be of any more help?

Cheers,

I just updated Minimee to 1.1.7 and that fixed the issue.  RSS is working again.

Thanks for all the support guys!

Sean