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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

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

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

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