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• line 36, column 4: Avoid Text Input [help]

      <textInput>
      ^

• line 58, column 44: Implausible date: Fri, 06 May 1983 09:00:00 CST [help]

        <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 1983 09:00:00 CST</pubDate>
                                              ^

• line 70, column 2: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]

    </channel>
    ^

Source: http://www.rssboard.org/files/rss-2.0-sample.xml

1. <rss version="2.0">
2.  <channel>
3.    <description>Current headlines from the Dallas Times-Herald newspaper</description>
4.    <link>https://dallas.example.com</link>
5.    <title>Dallas Times-Herald</title>
6.    <category>Media</category>
7.    <category domain="Newspapers/Regional/United_States">Texas</category>
8.    <cloud domain="server.example.com" path="/rpc" port="80" protocol="xml-rpc" registerProcedure="cloud.notify" />
9.    <copyright>Copyright 2006 Dallas Times-Herald</copyright>
10.    <docs>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs>
11.    <generator>Radio UserLand v8.2.1</generator>
12.    <image>
13.      <link>https://dallas.example.com</link>
14.      <title>Dallas Times-Herald</title>
15.      <url>https://dallas.example.com/masthead.gif</url>
16.      <description>Read the Dallas Times-Herald</description>
17.      <height>32</height>
18.      <width>96</width>
19.    </image>
20.    <language>epo</language>
21.    <lastBuildDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:17:44 GMT</lastBuildDate>
22.    <managingEditor>jlehrer@dallas.example.com (Jim Lehrer)</managingEditor>
23.    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
24.    <rating>(PICS-1.1 "https://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l by "webmaster@example.com" on "2006.01.29T10:09-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))</rating>
25.    <skipDays>
26.      <day>Saturday</day>
27.      <day>Sunday</day>
28.    </skipDays>
29.    <skipHours>
30.      <hour>0</hour>
31.      <hour>1</hour>
32.      <hour>2</hour>
33.      <hour>22</hour>
34.      <hour>23</hour>
35.    </skipHours>
36.    <textInput>
37.      <description>Your aggregator supports the textInput element. What software are you using?</description>
38.      <link>https://workbench.cadenhead.org/textinput.php</link>
39.      <name>query</name>
40.      <title>TextInput Inquiry</title>
41.    </textInput>
42.    <ttl>60</ttl>
43.    <webMaster>bob.brock@dallas.example.com (Bob Brock)</webMaster>
44.    <item>
45.      <title>Seventh Heaven! Ryan Hurls Another No Hitter</title>
46.      <link>https://dallas.example.com/1991/05/02/nolan.htm</link>
47.      <description>Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan hurled the seventh no-hitter of his legendary career on Arlington Appreciation Night, defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0. The 44-year-old struck out 16 batters before a crowd of 33,439.</description>
48.      <guid>https://dallas.example.com/1991/05/02/nolan.htm</guid>      
49.    </item>
50.    <item>
51.      <author>jbb@dallas.example.com (Joe Bob Briggs)</author>
52.      <category>rec.arts.movies.reviews</category>
53.      <comments>https://dallas.example.com/feedback/1983/06/joebob.htm</comments>
54.      <description>I'm headed for France. I wasn't gonna go this year, but then last week "Valley Girl" came out and I said to myself, Joe Bob, you gotta get out of the country for a while.</description>
55.      <enclosure length="24986239" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dallas.example.com/joebob_050689.mp3" />
56.      <guid>https://dallas.example.com/1983/05/06/joebob.htm</guid>
57.      <link>https://dallas.example.com/1983/05/06/joebob.htm</link>
58.      <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 1983 09:00:00 CST</pubDate>
59.      <source url="https://la.example.com/rss.xml">Los Angeles Herald-Examiner</source>
60.      <title>Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In</title>
61.    </item>
62.    <item>
63.      <description>I'm headed for France. I wasn't gonna go this year, but then last week &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086525/"&gt;Valley Girl&lt;/a&gt; came out and I said to myself, Joe Bob, you gotta get out of the country for a while.</description>
64.      <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:dallas.example.com,4131:news</guid>
65.    </item>
66.    <item>
67.      <description><![CDATA[I'm headed for France. I wasn't gonna go this year, but then last week <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086525/">Valley Girl</a> came out and I said to myself, Joe Bob, you gotta get out of the country for a while.]]></description>      
68.      <guid isPermaLink="false">1983-05-06+lifestyle+joebob+2</guid>
69.    </item>    
70.  </channel>
71. </rss>

If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:

1. Download the "valid RSS" banner.

2. Upload the image to your own server. (This step is important. Please do not link directly to the image on this server.)

3. Add this HTML to your page (change the image src attribute if necessary):

   <a href="http://www.rssboard.org/rss-validator/check.cgi?url=http%3A//www.rssboard.org/files/rss-2.0-sample.xml"><img src="valid-rss-rogers.png" alt="[Valid RSS]" title="Validate my RSS feed" /></a>

If you would like to create a text link instead, here is the URL you can use:

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-validator/check.cgi?url=http%3A//www.rssboard.org/files/rss-2.0-sample.xml