Submission Errors

[Radio NIHIL]

Hi, I'm trying to submit a newly created feed that we have routed through feedburner. I can't seem to get past your validator though, even though all the other validators out there seem to confirm the feed no problem.

I tried 3 different addresses to see if it was the wrong location, but each had a problem:

The site URL:

http://anus.com/zine/radio/

CRITICAL Missing or invalid XML Document Type Declaration. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-prolog-dtd. (data: Line 1) (code: 1020)

The feedburner feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioNihil

CRITICAL Channel doesn't contain any enclosures (code: 2000)

The original XML file:

http://www.anus.com/zine/radio/index.xml

CRITICAL Channel doesn't contain any enclosures (code: 2000)
+a whole slew of other errors

I'm guessing the 2nd 2 are wrong links, as your system is looking for the enclosure html tags. I looked up the first error though and as far as I can tell, my document type declaration is just fine. Here's a copy of the top of the feedburner XML info:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?>
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Radio NIHIL</title>
<link>http://www.anus.com/zine/radio</link>

Help please :)

[WyethDigital]

Not being an expert on PCA's feed claiming or submission process, one thing does stand out to me: The first URL you give is not an RSS feed. I don't think PCA will search your server for it, so you have to enter the address of an actual feed.

The other error messages, assuming there aren't actually any media enclosures seems self explanatory to me. Of course, if there are media enclosures, then it's a mystery to me why PCA wouldn't spot them.

I'm sure someone employed here will spot this thread soon and spot your problem.

Eric

[theFerf]

thanks wyeth..

i looked over your feedburener feed and there aren't any enclosures in the feed. in order to be considered a podcast feed, and not just a news feed, you need to include a link to a media file using the <enclosure> tag.

Here is an example of a properly formatted enclosure for a podcast feed:


<enclosure url="http://example.com/podcasts/everything/AllAboutEverythingEpisode3.m4a" length="8727310" type="audio/x-m4a" />
the enclosure consists of three parts
1. url -- the link to your audio/video file
2. length -- the size, in bytes, of your audio/video file
3. type -- the mime type of file in the enclosure (a standard one is "audio/mpeg" but you can see a lot of different ones here (http://www.fileformat.info/info/mimetype/standard.htm)).

hope the helps!

PS, you can always sign up for a service such as PodShow.com (http://www.podshow.com) and they will format your feed properly for you </shameless-plug>