Author Topic: Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML  (Read 493 times)

Karl Harris

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Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML
« on: April 17, 2017, 05:57:55 pm »
Hi all!

I am having an issue with my feed and I am not sure how to fix it.

http://mumswithhustle.com/feed/podcast/

In iTunes Podcast Connect, I see this error - Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML: Error on line 75: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.

In Feedburner, I see this:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
line 1, column 38: Use of unknown namespace: http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/ [help]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
                                      ^
line 1, column 38: Use of unknown namespace: http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0/play-podcasts.xsd [help]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
                                      ^
line 103, column 153: itunes:summary should not contain HTML: a (5 occurrences) [help]
... t=2"> Review me on ITunes! </a><br />]]></itunes:summary>

This is only happening with the latest episode, all past episodes seem to be working fine.

I am not sure how to either easily fix or remove the parts it talks about here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Karl

Shawn Thorpe

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Re: Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2017, 07:34:37 pm »
I think some of the code in your show notes is causing the podcast RSS feed to break. Give this a try:
1.) Log into your WordPress site.
2.) Go to Settings >> Reading.
3.) Change the "For each article in a feed, show" to Summary and click the Save Changes button.

See if that makes any difference with the feed and the Apple Podcasts directory.

Karl Harris

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Re: Can’t parse your feed. Invalid XML
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2017, 08:22:55 pm »
Thanks Shawn.

It seems that the option 'Summary' was already selected.

I removed the show notes and tried but nothing happened...

Do you have any other suggestions?

Karl