another RSS error

[lawrence]

My PHP script is trying to generate valid RSS, but I get a "misplaced
pubDate" error on this feed:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...2Fpage1882.xml

What does that mean? I look at the RSS .91 definitions, as near as I
can see the pubDate is in the order listed.

[Tjerk Wolterink]

lawrence wrote:

My PHP script is trying to generate valid RSS, but I get a "misplaced
pubDate" error on this feed:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...2Fpage1882.xml

What does that mean? I look at the RSS .91 definitions, as near as I
can see the pubDate is in the order listed.

Your item element contains a pubData element, and the rule:

<!ELEMENT item (title | link | description)*>

Does not allow this. Item elemsn can only have title link or description elements.

Your xml code:
line 12-16:

# <title>My favorite Adam Smith quote</title>
# <description> This is my favorite quote of Adam Smith's. It is from an article on libertyHaven.com, of which the following is an excerpt. In this quote Smith mentions 3 things needed for economic progress: peace, low taxes, and functioning courts. Conservative commentators tend to underestimate the importance of the first of these, and left wing commentators tend to underestimate the second of these. -------------------------------------------------- &amp;quot;As early as 1749 - before major works of the French laissez-faire economists were published -Smith had concluded that the way to promote prosper... read more at the link below.</description>
# <link>http://www.krubner.com/index.php?pageId=1882</link>
# <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:22:31 CST</pubDate>
# </item>

Does not follow this rule