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Comment 1 by marty posted on 8/23/2004 at 1:48 PM

Use the force Ray!!

Old = Yoda dude

Comment 2 by Ian posted on 8/24/2004 at 2:31 PM

Good article as every Ray.

You got a typo though in the title "Artilcle"

Comment 3 by Raymond Camden posted on 8/24/2004 at 3:17 PM

Fixed. Thanks Ian.

Comment 4 by Mike Freed posted on 7/16/2005 at 1:15 AM

Hi Ray - I'm late to the game, but very interested in learning more about how to integrate RSS into CFMX (v6.1).
I've reviewed your 2 articles on RRS Watcher application from Macromedia's site RSS Watch Sample App

I think I've got most of it setup correctly, but it consistently throws this error no matter what RSS feeds I add to the Search.xml file.
Would it be too much to ask if you have seen this before, and how the cause might be?

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15:12:42.042 - Expression Exception - in E:\inetpub\minet\customcf\RSSTest01\rsswatch.cfc : line 121
Illegal character at end of document, <.

15:12:48.048 - Expression Exception - in E:\inetpub\minet\customcf\RSSTest01\rsswatch.cfc : line 121
Illegal character at end of document, <.

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Comment 5 by Raymond Camden posted on 7/16/2005 at 1:43 AM

It sounds like the file may be corrupted. Try just viewing the CFC as is. If you get an error - then check the file from the zip and make sure it copied ok. Also note I have an updated version of an RSS checker. If you go to my blog, and search for rss.cfc, you should find a link to my RSS.cfc code.