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Using FireFox Live Bookmarks, I receive an error when I try to access the “Recent changes” RSS for my wiki. (I haven’t tried other RSS aggregaters - but the RSS feed from the Weblog and Forums are fine using Live Bookmarks(once I’ve signed onto my secured site).)

Code in the function wiki_special_rss() for my wiki theme .php hasn’t been altered from what’s in the default theme…

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: https://mysite.com/index.php?/S=blahblahsessionid/mywiki/Special:Recentchanges_RSS
Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?> 
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Its a company secured site so I can’t grant access to others but can provide code snippets to help troubleshoot. I’ve seen similar posts on this but they referred to running the wiki through page templates… There’s no RSS template in the wiki template group.

Let me know what I can provide to assist with troubleshooting…
-C

c.emerson, are you using a default theme wiki theme? If you try this with the default theme, does the same error occur?

We’re not using the default theme, but I changed the wiki to use the default (users are gone for the day) and received the same error.
I’ve changed it back to our custom theme - although there really is no difference in the rss function between the two themes.

Thanks.
-C

Do you have any other RSS readers to test the feed against? You’re using sessions, is that an issue?

Hi Sue -
re: sessions
On the same site, I’m able to get the RSS feed read correctly from weblog and forums so while I don’t rule it out, it doesn’t seem like that would be the issue if it works on some not others. The difference between weblog and forum RSS vs wiki is that the wiki has the RSS xml in a function and uses output buffering.

I have been able to get a different error (progress?)by modifying function wiki_special_rss() in my theme by moving the xml declaration out and hardcoding charset in the theme as follows:

ob_start();    
//    echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{charset}"?>';
        ?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>    
<rss version="2.0"

When I made this change, I get a new error trying to interpret the article content - its an entry that has a hefty html table.

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: https://mysite.com/index.php?/S=blahblahsessionid/mywiki/Special:Recentchanges_RSS
Line Number 402, Column 318:

Should the description be xml_emcoded? e.g.,

<description><![CDATA[{exp:xml_encode}{article}{/exp:xml_encode}]]></description>

I don’t know much about how the output buffering works but this aspect is definitely one difference between what works and what doesn’t.

And I don’t have another RSS reader installed but not confident this would show anything, since again, some feeds from same site are working fine.
Thanks!
-C

Are any users using “User Session Type”=“Session ID only” and successfully able to get RSS feeds to work from the Wiki Recent Changes?
I don’t have a separate template for RSS in the wiki template group - just using the instream function in the file…
For now, I have the feed removed from the wiki…
Please let me know.
Thanks. -C

c.emerson, I’ll set up one of my sites to use Session ID only and see if they’ll work for me. It’ll be in a few hours after my shift starts.