Mozilla RSS error

Question

Hi, I have 2 rss questions that I hope you can help me with
1.)I tried to use "
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/rss.cfm",
adobe's rss feed on
http://www.feedvalidator.org
but it does not validate, but why is it still used?
2.)the code (below) works in IE, but when I open rss.cfm in
Firefox, I get error message: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration
not at start of external entity Location:
http://soohoo/crimestoppers/test/rss.cfm
Line Number 2, Column 1:" How can I fix this? Thanks so much
-C
<!---My code...--->
<cfset NumberOfFeedItems = 10>
<!---
<cfquery name="getLatestPublishedArticles"
datasource="yourDB">
SELECT TOP #numberOfFeedItems# *
FROM yourContent
ORDER BY PublishedDate DESC
</cfquery>
--->
<cfset theDatetime = "#dateformat(now(), "ddd, dd mmm
yyyy")# #timeformat(now(), "HH:mm:ss")# PST">
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<cfsavecontent variable="theXML">
<cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- RSS generated by DevX on #theDatetime# -->
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>DevX Featured Content</title>
<link>
http://www.devx.com</link>
<description>Latest DevX Content</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2002 DevX</copyright>
<docs>
http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs>
<lastBuildDate>#theDatetime#</lastBuildDate>
<image>
<title>DevX</title>
<url>
http://www.devx.com/assets/devx/3182.gif</url>
<link>
http://www.DevX.com</link>
</image>
</cfoutput>
<cfloop from="1" to = "#numberOfFeedItems#"
index="ctr">
<cfscript>
title = "titleXXX";
description = "titleXXX";
description = "titleXXX";
date = "titleXXX";
time = "titleXXX";
authors = "titleXXX";
pubDate = date & " " & time;
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>
<item>
<title>#title#</title>
<description>#description#</description>
<link>
http://www.devx.com/content/id/</link>
<author>#authors#</author>
<pubDate>#pubDate#</pubDate>
</item>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
<cfoutput>
</channel>
</rss>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
<cffile action="write"
file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Crimestoppers\test\rssXml.xml"
output="#theXml#">
<cfcontent type="text/xml">
<cfoutput>#theXml#</cfoutput>

Answer 1

after you load your rss.cfm in FF, view the page's source to
see what's
actually being displayed - your rss feed or some cf/server
error...
also in the source view check that the <?xml...?> line
is THE FIRST LINE
on the page, with NO blank or text lines before it.
i think a dev version of CF puts a comment line "dev edition.
not for
production use blah blah" on the first line of every page it
processes,
so if you a checking your rss on a dev edition of CF that may
cause the
problem. it also makes the rss feed fail validation.
technically, you can do without the <?xml ...> line in
your file
completely... the rss feed will still validate (though with a
warning,
but which is only visible when you try to validate the rss -
your users
will not see any difference).
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com