Re: XML RSS - Unexpected End of File error

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:50 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > 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... :-( > I'm just used to it letting me know if I was trying to view malformed XML. It must be a special case for RSS as it recognises the format as being special! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk