293275 - XML Parsing Error, However If I Use IE It Shows The XML With No Errors

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[philip pryce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

XML Parsing Error, However If I Use IE It Shows The XML With No Errors, Its Says
It Has Something To Do With The First Line Of It eg: <?xml blah?> It Will Show
You The Error And Wereabouts It Is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Clicking Every Time On A XML Feed Button/Link
2.Shows Error
3.

Actual Results:  
Shows Error Close To This:
XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location:
http://www.dhost.info/flashfile/forums/topics_anywhere.php?mode=show&out=rss2.0&f=a&n=10&sfn=y&r=y&sr=y&b=non&lpb=0&lpd=0
Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>


Expected Results:  
Shown The XML Source If/Unless It Had An CSS Style Added To It

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The XML file is invalid, since it begins with a space and not the xml
declaration. The fact that IE doesn't catch this is a bug in IE's parser, and
violates the spec. Simply remove the removing the space solves the problem. See
bug 104743 and bug 187602.