RSS feed: prepended whitespace causes parse error

[Slideshow Bob]

Hey there - unfortunately your forum's search feature doesn't like the word length of my query words "RSS" and "XML", so please bear with me if this bug has already been reported:
I've got a problem with the RSS feed on my blog. The output is prepended with whitespace characters which cause XML parse errors in a couple of readers (Firefox as well).

Could somebody confirm this issue? Is there already a fix available?

Many thanks in advance,

Thomas

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

A whitespace character can often occur when you edited any lang*php files, and your editor inserted UTF-8 BOM headers. Those are 3 "hidden" characters, which disturb PHP. No character may occur before the openinig <?php of any PHP file in serendipity.

HTH,
Garvin

[Slideshow Bob]

Hi Garvin,

you're right, I edited the language files for the entrysplit plugin, due to the additions I've done a couple of months ago ("table of contents", see http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14746&start=0).

Unfortunately I cannot spot the problem there. I also just downloaded and re-installed the official entrysplit plugin from Spartacus and the RSS feed problem still remains.

Since I didn't edit any other language file I'd appreciate if you could give another pointer to the possible cause of the problem.

Thanks!

Thomas

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did you edit any other PHP file, apart from language files? Which editor do you use? If you use linux "joe" you could spot a UTF-8 BOM on the top of the file, and you could even use a find command to find files with BOM:

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=4& ... 568#p90568

Regards,
Garvin