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My podcast doesn't show up on the changes page anymore. I'm pasting in below the nice email from Verisign telling what  the problem is. Is this addressed in 0.4? Or have I done something to mess up the feed, do you think? It worked fine until the weblogs.com cut-over last week.

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I just wanted to follow up with you about pinging audio.weblogs.com with the whosaid.org podcast.  Sorry this is so verbose; I wanted to be sure of the root cause.  It looks like the RSS XML feed from the whosaid.org site contains an XML error.  Our system is complaining that the feed file references an undefined namespace prefix on line 12:

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Invalid XML: Error on line 12: Undeclared prefix in name: "pp:media".
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To make sure our code wasn't misbehaving I ran a local copy of your feed through Internet Explorer and feedvalidator.org.  Both complained:

Internet Explorer:
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The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Reference to undeclared namespace prefix: 'pp'. Error processing resource 'file:///D:/tools/tmp/podcast.php.xml'. Line 12,...

<pp:media link="http://www.whosaid.org"  image="http://www.whosaid.org/images/avatar.jpg"/>

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And feedvalidator.org said (http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= … odcast.php):

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This feed does not validate.

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      line 12, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:12:0: unbound prefix [help]

<pp:media link="http://www.whosaid.org"  image="http://www.whosaid.org/image ...

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You should be able to fix this by modifying the "podcast.php" feed generator at your whosaid.org webserver.  If you don't have access to changing PHP files on that webserver, you can just forward the following to your support personnel:


    Change the line that writes out:
     
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    <rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
    -snip-
     
    to:
     
    -snip-
    <rss version="2.0" xmlns:pp="http://www.pupuplayer.com/ppexplination-rtf" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
    -snip-
     
    Or you can just delete/comment-out line 12 from the podcast.php feed generator:
     
    -snip-
    <pp:media link="http://www.whosaid.org"  image="http://www.whosaid.org/images/avatar.jpg"/>
    -snip-


I'm discussing making the new weblogs.com XML readers more "lenient."

I hope that helps, and I'm sorry you're having trouble with the service!  Please let me know if this helps or if there's anything else I can do.

Last edited by amyloo (Oct 27th 2005 20:02)