I don’t know exactly when, but sometime between Saturday and Monday, my iTunes feed that was validating just fine at feedvalidator.org (see it here is gettg error s now, saying the feed is not valid .

Today, this new error apperared: iTunes elements should only be present in feeds encoded as UTF-8
Yesterday, this was not even there. What changed from Saturday to yesterday was that my URL for the DTD was throwing an error: http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd. When I changed the case of DTDs to dtds and the filename Podcast-1.0.dtd to podcast-1.0.dtd , then the error went away.

Yesterday, and still today, this error :
column 0: Undefined item element: itunes:category (3 occurrences)
<itunes:category text=”Religion & Spirituality”></itunes:category>

I fussed with this for quite a while yesterday, trying to get it to validate. Finally, I went ahead and tried putting the feed into my iTunes software, and it loaded fine. I put the Feed into Sage. Again fine. INto Bloglines, fine as well.

So is it feedvalidator.org that is confused? And why the change in case on the DTD file?

I’m confused.