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RSS Feeds Now Validate!
After months of wondering why the PhotographyBLOG RSS feeds wouldn’t validate, I’ve finally tracked down the problem and they now work properly 
So you should be able to subscribe to any of the 4 available feeds (RSS v0.92, 0.93, 1.00 and 2.00) and read PhotographyBLOG in your favourite news aggregator without any issues.
The URLs for the 4 feeds are:
http://www.photographyblog.com/index.xml
http://www.photographyblog.com/index_rss092.xml
http://www.photographyblog.com/index_rss100.xml
http://www.photographyblog.com/index_rss200.xml
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then please ignore this post (or do a Google search on RSS…)!
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#1 Steve Crane
I was surprised to see this as I've been using your v0.92 feed for a couple of months, first with BlogLines and now with SharpReader, and have never had any of your articles fail to validate. I've now switched to the v2.00 feed, although I don't know what the benefits, if any, are. But when it comes to version bingo, highest number wins.
5:42 am - Wednesday, December 10, 2003
#2 Peter
Hello,
Can you guys recommend any good free newsreader under windows? I used Feedreader, but it behaves incorrectly under WinXP. Another option is Beaver, but it has problems with some feeds.
8:20 am - Wednesday, December 10, 2003
#3 Mark Goldstein
Maybe it's like HTML pages, in that even if it doesn't validate, it will still work in certain programs. I'm recently started using http://www.bloglines.com and have not seen any problems with the PhotographyBLOG feed either (Bloglines defaults to using RSS 1.00). Peter, maybe you should try Bloglines or SharpReader?
11:38 am - Wednesday, December 10, 2003
#4 Steve Crane
Mark,
Murphy is at work or you spoke too soon. SharpReader reports a validation error with your latest article, using the 2.00 feed. The error is "line 36, column 44: XML Parsing error: :36:44: not well-formed (invalid token)". Looks like the pound currency symbol that is at fault.
2:23 pm - Wednesday, December 10, 2003
#5 Steve Crane
I was using BlogLines because the ease of using the same profile at work and home on different OS platforms appealed to me. However I found that I didn't use it much at home and switched back to SharpReader, which I had before as it had some benefits that I liked. There were also one or two glitches with BlogLines whereby it seemed to miss some posts on certain feeds. When it stopped getting Slashdot and regusrgitating large numbers of errors from Slashdot's feed I gave up on it. It's not bad though and may suit your needs better than it did mine.
2:34 pm - Wednesday, December 10, 2003
#6 Mark Goldstein
Yep, according to feedvalidator.org it's the £ symbol that's the problem. It mentions something about escaping the character, but I don't really understand RSS enough to know how to do that. If anyone can enlighten me...
9:57 am - Thursday, December 11, 2003
#7 Steve Crane
Try replacing the pound symbol with £ which is what you would do in an HTML page. I'm not too sure it this works in XML or not though.
10:48 am - Thursday, December 11, 2003
#8 Steve Crane
Damn it translated it. Let me try again. Replace it with £ or an ampersand, the word pound and a semi-colon.
10:51 am - Thursday, December 11, 2003
#9 Mark Goldstein
That fixed it! Cheers Steve
11:08 am - Thursday, December 11, 2003
#10 Michael Bravo
Peter, the arguably best Windows RSS aggregator is FeedDemon - go get it while it's free (while in beta). Don't be afraid of the beta status, I haven't had it bomb out once for all the time I use it. It is available at http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/
4:39 pm - Thursday, December 11, 2003