[jdom-interest] Exceptions thrown because of comments before root element

[Bradley S. Huffman]

"Dave Bartmess" writes:

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> org.edingo.JParsse.core.ChannelParseException:
> org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1 of document
> http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id\=63234:

Is that a stay "\" I see in the URL?

Brad