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gregthedivemaster
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Q: Failed validation

Only one of my 3 podcasts appear under Podcasts Connect and I cannot add the 2 that are missing to refresh them as they come up as "Failed Validation." I have been doing this for years, so this appears to be a relatively new issue. The 2 missing podcasts are:

http://www.scubaradio.com/srpodcast.xml

http://www.worldofboating.com/wobpodcast.xml

 

That said, they do appear to working. However, ScubaRadio appears to take about 5 days before it refreshes the feed.

 

http://www.justplaneradio.com/jprpodcast shows and works as expected.

 

Thanks for you help in advance,

Greg

Posted on May 19, 2016 1:33 PM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 May 19, 2016 2:08 PM in response to gregthedivemaster
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    May 19, 2016 2:08 PM in response to gregthedivemaster

    In the first case the FeedValidator Report highlights html in an 'itunes:summary' tag which should not be there. I don't know whether Apple's validator is objecting to this but it's quite possible. This tag should contain only plain text - html and links will show as code. http://xmlgrid.net/validator.html does not even complain about this issue and shows it as valid.

     

    Feedvalidator does not highlight any serious problems with the second feed. I tried the first one in Podcasts Connect but it simply says failed, and that it has already been submitted. I've no way of knowing what the problem is here.

     

    Both appear correctly in the iTunes Store and are up to date, so there is no need to refresh them (though it's the first step if episodes go missing or don't appear within a couple of days or so).