I'm wanting to transition our podcast xml from the current file that I manually configure, to one that BSM will update. In the spirit of cautiousness, I'm sending the xml file through a few validators, and they are coming back with the file being in bad form. I've deleted and recreated it a few times with the same results.
This link should take you to such a result.
If the link does not work, the URL of the xml in question is
www.daytonvineyard.com/cms/podcasts/bibl...dymanagerpodcast.xml

I truly value all that you've done with this component, it is truly a powerful tool!
~Brian

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Hey Brian - the url got gobbled. Can you repost or send it to me directly?

strange.
Here is the URL
http://www.daytonvineyard.com/cms/podcasts/biblestudymanagerpodcast.xmlhttp://www.daytonvineyard.com/cms/podcasts/biblestudymanagerpodcast.xml
And a copy of the file.
Blessings,
Brian

Hey Brian,

I checked you feed here: beta.feedvalidator.org.

Nothing about files - it doesn't like the itunes tags - that's no surprising, plus the language and the self reference.

Checked at validator.w3.org and same exact errors.

This feed does not validate.

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line 48, column 45: length attribute of enclosure must be a positive integer (45 occurrences) [help]

<itunes:duration>00:00:01</itunes:duration><enclosure url="www.dayt ...
^

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line 48, column 45: type attribute of enclosure must be a valid MIME type (47 occurrences) [help]

<itunes:duration>00:00:01</itunes:duration><enclosure url="www.dayt ...
^

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

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Your feed appears to be encoded as "utf-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII" [help]


*

line 35, column 128: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

... rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

The last two may be the problem - I think in the self reference there are two slashes

See here:
<atom:link href="www.daytonvineyard.com//podcasts/biblest...gerpodcast.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

Check the podcast settings on the admin side of JBS

I've spent a while looking over the admin side of things, and I've experimented around some, and I still am not coming up with a valid file.

I believe I've fixed the double slash issue, but now I get what appears to be an even worse error.

try validating this

www.daytonvineyard.com/cms/podcasts/bibl...dymanagerpodcast.xml

Our current file validates perfectly fine with the itunes tags (though it still does object to a couple other items.)

current file is at

www.daytonvineyard.com/podcasts/podcast.xml

In using this validator:

www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp

The syntax checker comes up with no errors.

FF shows the feed just fine.

If you go here:
feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%...dymanagerpodcast.xml

The feed doesn't validate but not with any serious errors (I think they are the same ones as before).

It seems that the language issue may the the thing - utf-8 vs US-ASCII

I'll put this in as a potential bug that we might fix in a future version.

Tom