Re: XML RSS - Unexpected End of File error

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:54 -0300, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: > >> Can you show the generated XML? >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan >> <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I've knocked up a quick RSS feed on my site. It works fine in Fx 2 & 3, >>> in Opera it throws an error "unexpected end of file" but allows the feed >>> to be added anyway, and Chrome just says there's an XML error, and gives >>> the second from last line as the one containing the error. >>> >>> I tried adding a newline to the end of the file, but that just makes the >>> error message report the next line. Any ideas where I'm going wrong? The >>> file is using utf-8 character encoding. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ash >>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >>> >>> >>> > > Nevermind, I was having a "moment"! I'd forgotten to close the final > tag, as I mistook the root <rss> tag for an XML declaration instead! I > am a little surprised that Fx allowed it to validate correctly though! > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > Well, don't forget, Fx will correct SGML and HTML that is missing tags. I think Fx would rather simply accept the incorrect format, correct it (since it wasn't a fatal error), and finally display what it figures you /intended/ to send it. I hate it when software tries to assume what I meant to say... :-(