Hi, there.

I have been getting sporadic errors with my RSS feeds using both my own theme and the default Kakumei theme on the latest installation of bbPress.

Sometimes when I hit the various RSS links, the following error comes up on a new page followed by a listing of the document tree:

“This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.”

Usually, when I hit the back button on my browser and try the feed button again, it works fine.

Any idea what’s going on here and how to fix it?

Thanks!

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Please post a link to the feeds that are not working.

Is this your forum?

http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/

I was able to get a proper feed for everything there, never a document tree. If you want to validate specific feeds, you can go here:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/

http://feedvalidator.org/

[@agitainment Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks, chrishajer. That is indeed my forum. I’ll try validating the feeds and see what happens.

Cheers!

[@agitainment Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

Hey, there.

Well I finally got around to validating my feeds. They do in fact validate, but I’m still getting the document tree intermittently on Firefox 3.0.3 for Mac OSX. I don’t seem to be having a similar problem on Safari (though I haven’t tested it as extensively). Here’s the output for the feed at http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/rss.php?forum=3:

<!– generator=”bbPress” –>

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<rss version=”2.0″>

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<channel>

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<title>

Agitainment Forum: Forum: Stan and Jess – Recent Posts

</title>

<link>http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</link&gt;

<description>Pulse-Pounding Agitainment Letters-Page and Forum!</description>

<language>en</language>

<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:36:29 +0000</pubDate>

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<item>

<title>admin on “Stan and Jess is on the way!”</title>

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<link>

http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/topic.php?id=14#post-30

</link>

<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:57:57 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>30@http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</guid>

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<description>

<p>If you haven’t already been to stanandjess.com, there is currently a place-holder cartoon on the site. Rest assured, the real cartoon is coming soon and will be updating weekly. I’ll be sure to let you all know when I roll out the first strips.

</p>

</description>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

As I mentioned before, if I page back on the browser and hit the feed again, it usually works.

Is it possible this is a Firefox issue?

Any ideas?

[@ipstenu Moderator 16 years, 1 month ago]

Wow, that’s very weird. Using Firefox3/Mac as well I can make it work by holding down shift on refresh. It’s almost like a caching issue.