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#60, RE: Blackhat Tip: Creating a Black Hole RSS Pheed
Posted by Top Hat Bob on Jan-21-08 at 10:32 PM
In response to message #56
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Glad to get you on the right track Faraz.

Your main problem is that your data isn't clean. The default black hole feed requires the text to be letters and numerals only with a couple punctuation marks like period and commas that will work.

Kurt pointed you in the direction of the CDATA post on the other thread.

You have two choices again:

1. Use clean content by typing it directly into a text editor or use Kurt's tools to spin the snippets. You can also find a tool to clean text. I use a plugin for Excel called ASAP Utilities that works well.

2. If your scrape your data, then learn how to use CDATA. You will still get strange characters in your feed and may need to still clean it up.

The other errors you are getting look like you don't have the 15 text files for descriptions, links and keywords uploaded to the server. Or you may have a typo in the text file titles or in your SSI includes. I make that mistake frequently.

Try putting your feed in feedvalidator.org and scroll down the page. It will help you greatly to see the errors messages.

Good luck!