From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems with newsticker 1.2 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:40:34 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <18328.1068784834@mixed> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068785000 627 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 04:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 05:43:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKVnh-0006Qu-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:43:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKWjF-0001tc-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKWiw-0001tB-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKWiQ-0001kH-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.110.136.11] (helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKWiQ-0001kE-9Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F41AB71A33; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:40:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mixed (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F369771A32; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:40:35 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David In-Reply-To: Message from David of "Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:46:26 CST." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2+cvs; nmh 1.1-RC1; GNU Emacs 21.3.1 X-Image-URL: http://people.debian.org/~psg/face.png X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14166 David wrote: > I just installed newsticker-1.3 It looks like a great package. I am using > emacs 21.3 on Mac OS 10.2 > > Then I started the package (m-x newsticker-start) I got this error message > in the message buffer: > > >>Thursday, 17:37: error while retrieving news from CNET News.com > >>Could not parse *wget-newsticker-The Register*: XML: Invalid character > > The above RSS feeds are from the list provided by the package. (I used > customize to select several). Any idea how to fix this problem? Are > there variables I have not set or should I use a different RSS feed? Try a different feed and report the problem to the author. Looks like a problem in xml.el to me. Peter