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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

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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

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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.

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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. 


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

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

and this is the code in the active news section:

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

Now what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 


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

&lt;link&gt;http://timrogers.host-dot.com/cutenews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1111916746&amp;archive=&lt;/link&gt;
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Now what?

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TimRogers

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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.

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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>

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

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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>

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

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

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Here is the code on the RSS template:

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

And the code in rss.php:

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

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

echo"&lt;/channel&gt;&lt;/rss&gt;";
?&gt;

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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>

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

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.

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OK, removed channel tags...

RSS.php code is:

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

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

echo"&lt;/channel&gt;&lt;/rss&gt;";
?&gt;

and the code for the cutenews RSS template is:

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

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>

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

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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>

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