Can anybody tell me why these won't work:

http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/index.rdf

http://www.guardian.co.uk/rss/1,,,00.xml

Yet these will:

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/dotjheads.xml

http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf

All four of them work fine in SharpReader, all four open to display what looks like healthy xml in IE 6.

The two that don't work specify ISO-8859-1, but any setting for rss encoding results in the items just not showing up at all. All other header settings used in the problem feeds also appear in the ones that work properly, so it seems the problem centers on the ISO spec.

The site is viewable here:
http://s90114153.onlinehome.us/html/modules/xoopsheadline/

I just established the domain http://www.openspeech.org; anyone who is interested in free speech issues is welcome to help me get this ready to debut.

Turning debug on will provide you with information as why it is not working. Most likely the source is not RSS2.0 compliant, so XOOPS can't retrieve info from the site.

Thanks! Block debug turned up a "failed to retrieve" error, and googling that provided me with an update that fixed it.

The following:

http://www.myxoopsforge.de/dl/saxparser.zip

overwrites the saxparser in class/xml

The site is now reachable at http://www.openspeech.org (actually its still at the old site, using a frameset for now.)

Good for you. Glad it worked. Happy xoopsing.