XML Feed Code Error

[JewelsT]

Hello,
I'm new to both RSS & XML and I am trying to create a ColdFusion RSS feed. I have my cfm file with all my code and at the end of the file I am writing that output to an XML file. At the top of my page, I am setting variables, and queries and then here is the rest of my code.

<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<cfsavecontent variable="theXML">
<cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Morning Bond Comment</title>
<link>http://mywebsite.com/</link>
<description>Latest Bond Market Comment</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2007</copyright>
<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss/</docs>
<lastbuilddate>#theDatetime#</lastbuilddate>
<item>
<pubDate>#CommentDate#</pubDate>
<title>#CommentHeadline#</title>
<description>#BondComment#</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>

<cffile action="write" file="#expandPath(".")#\c_bond_comment_feed.xml" output="#theXML#">

<cfcontent type="text/xml">
<cfoutput>#theXml#</cfoutput>

When I go to view the RSS, I get a Feed Code Error saying
Invalid xml declaration.
Line: 2 Character: 3

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>


I have tried different encoding structures. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong? Any help will be very much appreciated.

[dorinbogdan]

Welcome to TheScripts TSDN....

I'm not sure if works here too (regularly it's the XML standard), but try to set it as the first line
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

I will post a link to this question in the Coldfusion forum too.

Dorin.

[acoder]

Try moving the cfoutput outside the cfsavecontent tag or have them around each separate variable instead.

[JewelsT]

Welcome to TheScripts TSDN....

I'm not sure if works here too (regularly it's the XML standard), but try to set it as the first line
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

I will post a link to this question in the Coldfusion forum too.

Dorin.

Thank you. Putting that at the very top, got me further than what I was yesterday.

[JewelsT]

Try moving the cfoutput outside the cfsavecontent tag or have them around each separate variable instead.

Thank you for your suggestions and I tried them. As soon as I put the cfoutput around each variable, I get another error saying "Invalid at the top level of the document." I'm not even sure how to fix that error. I do like the fact that none of the start tags and end tags are showing on the source.

When I tried to put the cfoutput on the outside of the cfsavecontent tag, on the view source of the browser, it will show all information from the start of the <rss> tag to the </rss> tag.

Any more suggestions?

[acoder]

Thank you for your suggestions and I tried them. As soon as I put the cfoutput around each variable, I get another error saying "Invalid at the top level of the document." I'm not even sure how to fix that error.

Is this a Coldfusion error or are you talking about when you view the RSS?

[JewelsT]

Is this a Coldfusion error or are you talking about when you view the RSS?

No, this is an error I get when I am trying to view the feed in the IE7 & IE6. Then when I test it in FireFox and Netscape 9, I get the error "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed". I'm guessing that it doesn't like the dateformat of 06/06/07.

[guptasameer]

Hi,

Here are things you should try or post ur xml output to the forum.

Why dont you try to make all strings XML safe by using #XMLFormat(string)# function?

And you should not be writing the variable to file, unless you want to store it permanently.

 
<cfcontent type="text/xml" reset="yes">
<cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="yes">
<cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>Morning Bond Comment</title>
        <link>http://mywebsite.com/</link>
        <description>Latest Bond Market Comment</description>
        <language>en-us</language>
        <copyright>Copyright 2007</copyright>
        <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss/</docs>
        <lastbuilddate>#theDatetime#</lastbuilddate>
        <item>
            <pubDate>#CommentDate#</pubDate>
            <title>#CommentHeadline#</title>
            <description>#BondComment#</description>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>
</cfoutput>
<cfabort>
</cfprocessingdirective>