title: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 1 and head in RSS feed from Google Groups
body: <p>The following PHP has been working for a couple of years:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      $counter = 0;
      $rss = new SimpleXMLElement('http://groups.google.com/group/boy-scout-troop-845/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml', null, true);
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's now generating errors as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ... parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 1 and head in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ..."&gt;&lt;/head in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ...
  : parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: head line 1 and html in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ... in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ...  parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 1 in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: forum/feed/boy-scout-troop-845/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php on line 119
  
  Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php:119 Stack trace: #0 /home/content/t/r/o/troo9757/html/index.php(119): SimpleXMLElement-&gt;__construct('... on line 119
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note that I've replaced links by "..." in order to get this accepted.  I've looked at the returning XML and it appears fine.  Is it possible it's just gotten too long?  Any suggestions here?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>