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I am volunteering for a church, and I am having trouble setting up an RSS feed…

http://www.uptownbaptistchurch.org/blog/rss

Could someone help me with what I am doing wrong?

I tried it in FeedBurner, but it says it’s not a valid xml file.  (I selected rss in the template type.)

I’ve been working on this for a long time, with no luck… any help would be greatly appreciated.

It shows as an RSS feed in Safari.

Check these two posts for some great info:

http://23rdworld.com/2009/12/23/how-to-fix-your-expressionengine-rss-template/

http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/customizing-expressionengine-rss-template/

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums, jupebox!

Since you’re new to the EE forums, have you seen EEWiki:// How to Post a Support Request?

Dylan, thanks for the assist.

jupebox, do the entries Dylan has linked to help?

Unfortunately, I’m not sure why FeedBurner would reject the RSS.  I tried to use the template…

For example, look at this error message when I try to validate the RSS:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=www.uptownbaptistchurch.org/blog/rss/

I’m not sure what to do next.

Joel

I am using the EE RSS template, but feedburner gives me the following error message:

“The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file.”

Hi, jupebox. Can you post what exactly you have in your RSS feed template? Which build/version of EE2.x are you using? You can find that out at the bottom of any control panel page. (In the footer.)

Thanks for helping.  I am using EE 1.6.7

Below is exactly what is in my RSS template…

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{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="blog"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}" debug="yes"}

<?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}{weblog_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
    <link>{weblog_url}</link>
    <description>{weblog_description}</description>
    <dc:language>{weblog_language}</dc:language>
    <dc:creator>[email protected]</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:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
      <link>{title_permalink=blog/article}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink=blog/article}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description>{exp:xml_encode}{summary}{body}{/exp:xml_encode}</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:weblog:entries}
    
    </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

Your feed contains encoded entities, like & lt;title & gt; Are they part of the original data?

Yeah, that seems strange.  Feed Valitor made a note of that.

I didn’t add those, but not sure where they are coming from.

(Also, is “channel” an appropriate tag for EE 1.6.7?)

Have you tried the code found in this wiki article?

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/How_can_I_use_HTML_to_format_my_RSS_feed/

If that still doesn’t work for you, you might want to consider upgrading your version if for no other reason that to refresh your code base.

Does that help?