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<p>XML Parsing error: <code>syntax error</code></p>
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<p>Your feed is not <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-well-formed">well formed</a> according to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">XML specification</a>.  All feeds must be well-formed XML.  In fact, IE7 and the RSS platform in Windows Vista <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/11/03/489065.aspx">only support feeds that are well-formed XML.</a></p>
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<p>The text of the error may contain additional helpful details. At a minimum, the actual line and column number where the error was detected will be reported. </p>

<p>The most common cause is encoding errors. There are several basic approaches to solving this: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-chardata">escaping problematic characters</a> (<q><code>&lt;</code></q> becomes <q><code>&amp;lt;</code></q>, <q><code>&amp;</code></q> becomes <q><code>&amp;amp;</code></q>, etc.), escaping entire blocks of text with <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-cdsection">CDATA sections</a>, or putting an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-EncodingDecl">encoding declaration</a> at the start of the feed.</p>

<p>Another common error is the inclusion of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) before the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-XMLDecl">XML Declaration</a>.  If an XML Declaration is included, it must be the first thing in the document</p>
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