I broke my RSS feed -- it started reporting the message
XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
I thought I should post the fix in case any other WordPress users have the same problem. The plugin I had just added (disemvowel.php) had an extra blank line at the end. Removing the blank line fixed the problem. Simple really.
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It's that time again: nominate your favorite commenter(s) in the thread for this post, and we'll see who gets to be honored with a Molly this month.
I just had an odd idea for another of those blog memes, and this is very much an experiment.
So here's an interesting problem I ran into today. You have metadata in an XML file. You want to make the file self-describingly self-correcting, so you want to embed its checksum inside it. The problem is, you can't add the checksum to the XML file without changing the file's checksum!
I'll just park this here, in case you haven't noticed it.
troppo is looking at a crime figures meme.
Since you mention XML, I was wondering if the XML stuff I found on the ISI Web of Science abstracts was useful?
I haven't looked at it yet, but it will probably prove handy. When I figure out how to write WordPress plugins, I'll set up a blog containing all the abstracts with a plugin that lets you classify them.
remove the extra white space at beginning of the tag will solve the problem.
white space can be carriage return (\n), tab(\t), white space (' ')