Empty XML-Tag creates RSS validation error

[Oliver]

Hi,

I’ve been searching for about this problem on the internet for serveral hours, but couldn’t find a solution. 🙁
Maybe you can help.

I’ve been using a customization to create a additional RSS-Feed, which worked pretty fine for several months. Today I realized that it doesn’t validate anymore (please see URL in the next private post, can’t make is public).

Reason for the non-validation this is the empty XML-Tag <wfw:commentRss></wfw:commentRss>. It’s missing the URI in between the two tags.
Do you know where this XML-Tag is located in the code or why it is empty?
Is it inside WordPress or TEC? (Google says it’s located in wordpress/wp-rss2.php, but this files doesn’t exist).

Best regards for any help!
Oliver

[Oliver]

This reply is private.

[Josh]

Hello Oliver,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

I was unable to reproduce the error with a default event feed. Does the validation issues persist with the customization excluded?

For the most part, I believe our RSS feeds are stock feeds that come along as part of being a WordPress custom post type. Do you get the same validation issues when testing feeds from other parts of your site?

Thanks!

[Oliver]

Thanks Josh!

you saved my day!
The hint you gave was the right one!
I had some old customization piece for the RSS feed, which caused the error:

Erroneous link to comment/feed in page source for every event

After removing it the bug dissapered 🙂

Best regards and a nice weekend!
Oliver

[Josh]

Hello Oliver,

Thanks for following up. Glad I was able to help!

I’ll go ahead and close this ticket. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

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