04 November 2012, 11:49

I am attempting to use an RSS feed from Facebook using the External Feed block but when entering the feed:

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=63806824514&format=atom10

I get an error to say that the input is not valid XML. Is there a way to correct this?

Bill

09 November 2012, 16:32

Hi Bill,

I've done a bit of a google around, and apparently the facebook rss feeds can be poorly formed and some validators will fail them. This is facebook's doing and it seems to have been a known issue for a while, so clearly they're not rushing to fix them.

The recommended workaround seems to be to put the feed into http://feedburner.google.com which cleans it up. You can then distribute the feedburner link instead.

Hope this helps,
Melissa