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by Jared Richardson.
Original Post: Validate your RSS feeds on line
Feed Title: Jared's Weblog
Feed URL: http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/index.rss
Feed Description: Jared's weblog.
The web site was created after the launch of the book "Ship It!" and discusses issues from Continuous Integration to web hosting providers.
Here's a handy utility. It's called the Feed Validator. And it does just what the name implies.
About once a week I'll paste in a character from a word processor or from a PDF and that character isn't allowed in RSS feeds. My blog software doesn't mind it, just passes it in the RSS feed. Then I start hearing from people that I've posted a bad feed again. (Sorry about that!)
It's usually one of three problems. First, an angled single paren instead of a straight, proper paren. A good one looks like this '
The second and third errors are double parens. One is the right paren, the other the left. Replace them both with regular parens like this " and you'll be fine.
Just hit this handy url and you can validate your feed (or someone else's) to see exactly what the problem is. And while I've found it doesn't do a great job of pointing out the offending line or character, it always gives the correct error message with the right Hex value to match up to your offending character.
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