[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9610: line breaks in functions.php result in invalid XML in RSS feed

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#9610: line breaks in functions.php result in invalid XML in RSS feed
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 Reporter:  rmckillen     |        Owner:          
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:          
Component:  XML-RPC       |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:                |  
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Changes (by achmafooma):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  worksforme =>


Comment:

 Denis-- I understand that the problem is set in motion by the issue in the
 theme's function.php..... BUT why on earth would an erroneous blank line
 in functions.php screw up both the RSS feeds and XML-RPC functionality?
 One should not effect the other like this.

 This gave me a huge amount of headache in tracking down the problem since
 nothing in my functions.php should have been effecting RSS/XML-RPC, and
 nothing in the way the problem presented itself (blank space at the start
 of the XML files) would have pointed me back to functions.php. I only
 figured it out when I stumbled upon this bug report.

 To me, this is definitely a bug either in how WP parses functions.php
 files or in how WP generates the XML for RSS / XML-RPC. A blank line in
 functions.php (even if this is incorrect/improper) should not inexplicably
 put a blank line on top of WP-generated XML and break RSS / XML-RPC!

 Don't want to get into a war here; another 'closed/worksforme' and I'll
 quietly drop it :-).

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9610#comment:10>
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