[Michael]

Greetings all

I installed my bbPress forums (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation) about 2 weeks ago. I have also added many plugins to it – and everything seems to be just peachy.

However, I now have a problem with my RSS Feeds. I am getting the following error in Mozilla Firefox:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity

Location: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rss/forum/news-and-announcements

Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-^

I have replaced all the RSS files with the originals just in case the were corrupted – with no luck.

To see an example, go to this topic and click on the RSS link at the bottom right:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/topic/from-the-blog-recieving-and-parsing-twitter-feeds

[johnhiler]

It looks like there’s an extra space at the beginning of your feed?

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rss/topic/from-the-blog-recieving-and-parsing-twitter-feeds

[Michael]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I have searched through the rss.php file – and I could not figure out how to remove that extra space.

Do you perhaps know how it can be done?

[Michael]

I just had a look at rss2.php in my template’s directory, and the layout seems to be okay there.

[johnhiler]

Similar issues have been reported by plugins having extra spaces at the end of ’em:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-to-rss-xml-parsing-error

Try deactivating your plugins and see if the issue resolves itself… if so, then activate one plugin at a time until the XML error pops up again!

[Michael]

Will give that a try – I can see very well how that kind of thing would happen.

Wish me luck – I have 43 plugins.

Will let you know.

[Michael]

I had 6 plugins with extra spaces – some more than one space.

It seems to be working just fine now. Thank you.