PHP SimpleXML parser error : Premature end of data in tag feed line 1

**adammw** · 07-16-2009, 09:44 AM

Hi.
I'm getting a parser error on my XML feed from YouTube's friend activity feed.
The error I am recieving is:

Quote:

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [function.SimpleXMLElement---construct]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Premature end of data in tag feed line 1 in /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php on line 86

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [function.SimpleXMLElement---construct]: x>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage> in /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php on line 86

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [function.SimpleXMLElement---construct]: ^ in /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php on line 86

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php:86 Stack trace: #0 /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php(86): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('<feed xmlns='ht...') #1 /media/morpheus/yasn/stream_test.php(70): YouTube->get_friends_activity() #2 {main} thrown in /media/morpheus/yasn/includes/youtube.php on line 86

The content of the XML feed is: (spaced out so easier to read)

HTML Code:

<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/'
xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'
gd:etag='W/"DUQHQXs6cCp7ImA9WxJUF0k."'>
  <id>
  tag:youtube.com,2008:user:amalcontentiwilson:friendsactivity</id>
  <updated>2009-07-16T05:28:50.518-07:00</updated>
  <category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'
  term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#userEvent' />
  <title>Activity of the friends of amalcontentiwilson</title>
  <logo>
  http://www.youtube.com/img/pic_youtubelogo_123x63.gif</logo>
  <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed'
  type='application/atom+xml'
  href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/amalcontentiwilson/friendsactivity' />
  <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch'
  type='application/atom+xml'
  href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/amalcontentiwilson/friendsactivity/batch' />
  <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml'
  href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/amalcontentiwilson/friendsactivity?start-index=1&amp;max-results=25' />
  <link rel='service' type='application/atomsvc+xml'
  href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/amalcontentiwilson/friendsactivity?alt=atom-service' />
  <author>
    <name>YouTube</name>
    <uri>http://www.youtube.com/</uri>
  </author>
  <generator version='2.0' uri='http://gdata.youtube.com/'>YouTube
  data API</generator>
  <openSearch:totalResults>0</openSearch:totalResults>
  <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
  <openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
</feed>

Could someone help me to see why this is not valid and how to solve the problem?
Thanks.

**jcgeilomat** · 08-10-2009, 10:42 AM

I have the same problem, any ideas?