Quote Originally Posted by nehoward64 View Post
I'm getting the same error.... it says the error is in line 14 column 87.

This is the line in question.....

<link>http://www.howardsfpi.com/hfpistore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=596</link>

I've counted it out on mine as well as others who have posted the same error messages and the error always points to the equal sign in the 'product_id' section(in my case it's product_id=596).

If I remove that product listing from the file and run it again, I get the same error on the next product, again, pointing to the equal sign in the 'product_id' field.

I believe the real issue is in the & symbol.... Has google changed something to not like the & symbol in files? I'm not an expert at this but this is what it seems like.

Any thoughts?
OK wise ones.... My suspicions were correct. After several hours of pouring through code books I haven't dealt with in about 15 years, and reading through several hundred messages in this forum, I have discovered that the '&' is the problem in the <link> line of the file. After changing all occurrences of it to '&amp;' with notepad++ and manually uploading it, google liked my file and listed all of the products.

The question is, does anyone know how to either make the base feeder do this automatically when the file is generated, OR, some automatic way of doing this so the base feeder will FTP the file without me having to manually change all the ampersands and manually uploading the file? Although I used to write communications software for UNIX 20 years ago, I'm a bit out of touch and haven't dug into the code(or had the time to) to figure this out.

Any input would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance(only because I know some smart person probably already has the answer )