Issues with RSS output
By John on Tuesday, 07 November 2017
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Hi there, I am trying to set up the RSS output for my blog to link it to other area's. When I test the RSS link by clicking on the symbols on the blog page it opens up into what looks like a good stream however when I try it on feedburner or flipboard I get told the RSS format is invalid. I have tried using the RSS link in the back end & also by copying the code from the front end but neither work when entered to feedburner or flipboard.

Flipboard RSS requirements https://about.flipboard.com/rss-spec/
Hey John,

I've checked from your backend RSS Feedburner setting, it seems like you haven't setup your site blog RSS feed URL yet, perhaps you can try setup from here http://www.feedburner.com/ , once you get the feed URL from your site, then put that Feedburner URL into Easyblog setting and see how it goes?
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 07 November 2017 18:50
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Hi Alex,

I have tried that but it tells me that the RSS feed is incorrect:
The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 14: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
John
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Wednesday, 08 November 2017 05:01
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Hey John,

I think i misunderstand your question in earlier, i've checked with your blog RSS feed again, it seems like somewhere injected these <body></body HTML code into RSS feed page which caused this issue, you can check my attached screenshot below.

May i know do you have any development site so I can able to try temporary switch to another template and see whether it injected from template? Because just i did tried check from your existing modules and plugins, it seems like that code is not injected from there.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 08 November 2017 15:06
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Hi Alex, at the moment i dont have a test site to play with but if its only for a short time you can switch templates.
If you try & do it outside of core NZ hrs 8am-5pm there shouldnt be too much of an issue.
John
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Friday, 10 November 2017 05:26
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Hey John,

I already tried to switch your current template to use Joomla protostar template, but it still render those <body></body code which caused that feed does not validate.

Even I've tried with Joomla single category page RSS feed :
[gist type="php"]
http://www.manycaps.com/demo-category-page.html?format=feed&type=rss
[/gist]
, that feed validation also detected this is not validate because some where injected this code <body></body, you can check my screenshot here : https://www.screencast.com/t/sIw5Z5u8P5

You also can check on this validate link as well.
[gist type="php"]
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manycaps.com%2Fdemo-category-page.html%3Fformat%3Dfeed%26type%3Drss
[/gist]

Perhaps you can try setup one fresh Joomla site, then try only install Easyblog into this site and see if the issue still persists, so you can ensure that is not Easyblog issue, then you can slowly install one by one those extension which you installed from your live site, this way you can isolate which extension caused this issue.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 10 November 2017 19:58
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