title: PHP not parsing wordpress rss feed
body: <p>I have read about a dozen posts on this topic here on SO and all of them refer to the whitespace issue, which I don't have, and feed validator agrees my feed is okay (http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgearmunk.com%2Fblog%2Ffeed%2F)</p>
  
  <p>I am using the following code to parse the rss:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $rss = new DOMDocument();
  $rss-&gt;load('http:/gearmunk.com/blog/feed/');
  $feed = array();
  foreach ($rss-&gt;getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
  $item = array ( 
  'title' =&gt; $node-&gt;getElementsByTagName('title')-&gt;item(0)-&gt;nodeValue,
  'desc' =&gt; $node-&gt;getElementsByTagName('description')-&gt;item(0)-&gt;nodeValue,
  'link' =&gt; $node-&gt;getElementsByTagName('link')-&gt;item(0)-&gt;nodeValue,
  'date' =&gt; $node-&gt;getElementsByTagName('pubDate')-&gt;item(0)-&gt;nodeValue,
  );
  array_push($feed, $item);
  }
  $limit = 3;
  for($x=0;$x&lt;$limit;$x++) {
  $title = str_replace(' &amp; ', ' &amp;amp; ', $feed[$x]['title']);
  $link = $feed[$x]['link'];
  $description = $feed[$x]['desc'];
  $date = date('l F d, Y', strtotime($feed[$x]['date']));
  echo '&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="'.$link.'" title="'.$title.'"&gt;'.$title.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;';
  echo '&lt;small&gt;&lt;em&gt;Posted on '.$date.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;';
  echo '&lt;p&gt;'.$description.'&lt;/p&gt;';
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but if you look at <a href="http://gearmunk.com/index3.php" rel="nofollow">http://gearmunk.com/index3.php</a> you will see, on the right, it lists 3 bad dates and no rss data. If I put in another feed URL it works fine, and if I put my rss feed into Google reader it works just fine. I'm hoping there is something stupid simple I'm missing. Can someone help?</p>
  
  <p>thanks,
  Erik</p>
  
  <p>MORE INFORMATION:</p>
  
  <p>I started to focus in on it being a wordpress problem, so I tried some other wordpress RSS feeds. One from CNN works fine (http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/feed/), however, one from BoingBoing (also a WP site) doesn't work: <a href="http://boingboing.net/feed" rel="nofollow">http://boingboing.net/feed</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I am not getting the XML Parse error normally associated with the whitespace issue, so I don't think that is it.</p>
  
  <p>Erik</p>