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Hi, I'm a noob with rss so I'm sorry if this causes a yawn or two but it's alien to me. Last week I published an ep and didn't update on iTunes. I use libsyn and feedburner. That's the feed http://thenoteshow.libsyn.com/rss it says 'The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 39: The element type "description" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</description>".
I use that feed in feedburner. Last week I uploaded an episode then reuploaded it when I'd shortened it, which at first I did a few times. I'm not sure if that is what caused it or not.
Thank you for your time!

Your feed was not validating due to some Java script code in the description field for eps 7 and 5.
The code was:
<script>// <![CDATA[
!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https'; if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.t witter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');
// ]]></script>
I removed this code from your descriptions and now it is validating fine.
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenoteshow.libsyn.com%2Frss
Do not add java script code to your description field - RSS aggregators like iTunes do not like that.
I would recommend you go into your libsyn account and under destinations / then "libsyn classic feed" add in the info for your iTunes category and other iTunes elements.
Then in Feedburner make sure you have smartcast turned off.
Regards,
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