Cutenews RSS Feed

[TimRogers]

OK, I am using the Cutenews RSS feed script found at

http://cutephp.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49

but I am getting errors because of something cutenews does automatically. How can I stop it form doing it?

To see the error go to http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php

[dotRoot]

OK, I am using the Cutenews RSS feed script found at

http://cutephp.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49

but I am getting errors because of something cutenews does automatically. How can I stop it form doing it?

To see the error go to http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php

585753736[/snapback]

Because the start tag is <title> but ends in </channel>

Looks pretty straight foward to me. Either you are missing </title> somewhere or you are missing <channel>

You could probably just have posted the source to the file that was erroring and then someone could have pointed out exactly where for you.

[Mr Farrar]

prolly the channels

[TimRogers]

I added a channel tag at the start, now I'm getting a different error:

The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php'. Line...

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1111916746&archive=</link&...

and this is the code in the active news section:

<channel>
<item>
<title>{title}</title>
<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id={news-id}&archive={archive-id}</link>
<description><![CDATA[{short-story}]]></description>
</item>

Now what?

[dotRoot]

I added a channel tag at the start, now I'm getting a different error:

The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php'. Line...

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1111916746&archive=</link&...

585754892[/snapback]

Your <link& is the problem. Change that to:

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1111916746&archive=</link>

[TimRogers]

Root, I've done what you said, so now the code is:

<channel>
<item>
<title>{title}</title>
<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id;=1111916746&archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[{short-story}]]></description>
</item>

But still I am getting the error:

The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'http://www.timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php'. Line 12, Position 81 

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1111916746&archive=</link>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Now what?

[dotRoot]

The solution to your problem is posted here.

[TimRogers]

And now were back to:

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

End tag 'channel' does not match the start tag 'title'. Error processing resource 'http://www.timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/c...

<!-- News Powered by CuteNews: http://cutephp.com/ --></channel></rss>

----------------------------------...

[dotRoot]

And now were back to:

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

End tag 'channel' does not match the start tag 'title'. Error processing resource 'http://www.timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/c...

<!-- News Powered by CuteNews: http://cutephp.com/ --></channel></rss>

----------------------------------...

585759527[/snapback]

If you want just attach the php file here and someone will take a look at it. At least I will.

[TimRogers]

Here is the code on the RSS template:

<channel>
<item>
<title>{title}</title>
<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id;=1111916746&archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[{short-story}]]></description>
</item>

And the code in rss.php:

<?PHP
header("Content-type: text/xml");
echo"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"windows-1252\" ?>
<rss version=\"0.91\" >
 <channel>
   <title>TimRogersBlog</title>
   <link>http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk</link>
   <language>en-us</language>
   <description>Blog</description>
   <generator>CuteNews</generator>
";

$template="rss";
include("show_news.php");

echo"</channel></rss>";
?>

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

i found this code

<title>TimRogers/title>

Your end title tag is broken.

[TimRogers]

Thank you :D Ill go change it!

[TimRogers]

And I corrected it, and guess what now! Another problem, here is the error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

Location: http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php

Line Number 12, Column 78:<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&ampid;=1111916746&amparchive=</link>

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Edited April 12, 2005 by TimRogers

[dotRoot]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<rss version="0.91" >
 <channel>
 ? <title>TimRogers</title>
 ? <link>http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk</link>
 ? <language>en-us</language>
 ? <description>Blog</description>
 ? <generator>CuteNews</generator>
<channel>
<item>
<title>We Are Back!</title>
<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&ampid;=1111916746&amparchive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[OK, sorry everyone, the blog is back after problems installing the RSS feed for MSN alerts, way to subcribe coming very soon! ?<img style="border: none;" alt="smile" src="https://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/data/emoticons/smile.gif" />]]></description>
</item><!-- News Powered by CuteNews: http://cutephp.com/ --></channel></rss>

See the <channel> tags? One wasn't closed. The one right above the <item> tag is your culprit. I would assume you can just remove it and everything will work fine. That or add </channel> above it.

Edit:...also you aren't using a WYSIWYG editor to edit this file right? I understand you'd be looking in an "edit source" type option, but some WYSIWYG editors will get confused when trying to keep everything correct and actually mess it up.

[TimRogers]

OK, removed channel tags...

RSS.php code is:

<?PHP
header("Content-type: text/xml");
echo"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"windows-1252\" ?>
<rss version=\"0.91\" >
 <channel>
   <title>TimRogers</title>
   <link>http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk</link>
   <language>en-us</language>
   <description>Blog</description>
   <generator>CuteNews</generator>
";

$template="rss";
include("show_news.php");

echo"</channel></rss>";
?>

and the code for the cutenews RSS template is:

<item>
<title>{title}</title>
<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1111916746&archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[{short-story}]]></description>
</item>

And now, here is the error on rss.php:

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reference to undefined entity 'id'. Error processing resource 'http://www.timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/rss.php'. Line 11, Position 79

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id;=1111916746&archive=</link>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

[dotRoot]

I didn't catch it before, but you have a <description> tag closed, but not opened. Look below to what's in bold. There is no <description> tag to close.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>

<rss version="0.91" >

<channel>

<title>TimRogers</title>

<link>http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk</link>

<language>en-us</language>

<description>Blog</description>

<generator>CuteNews</generator>

<item>

<title>We Are Back!</title>

<link>http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&ampid=1111916746&amparchive=</link>

<description><![CDATA[OK, sorry everyone, the blog is back after problems installing the RSS feed for MSN alerts, way to subcribe coming very soon! <img style="border: none;" alt="smile" src="http://timrogers.host-dot.com/blog/cutenews/data/emoticons/smile.gif" />]]></description>

</item><!-- News Powered by CuteNews: http://cutephp.com/ --></channel></rss>