# RSS Feed and XML error

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-feed-and-xml-error/267350>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [July 31, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-feed-and-xml-error/267350 "2008-07-31T02:13:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![spyderfx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@spyderfx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spyderfx)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-feed-and-xml-error/267350/1 "2008-07-31T02:13:38Z")

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A user on my site notified me and told me that my RSS and Atom weren’t working. I have never really used feeds before, so I’m not sure how they work, but the person sent me an email saying he got this error

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity  
Location: [http://bioloser.com/?feed=rss2](http://bioloser.com/?feed=rss2) Line Number 2, Column 1:\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?\> ^