Mopidy Podcast does not load podcasts from opml file

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I have the mopidy-podcast extension installed and it apparently is operating, because I used to get errors that said it couldn’t find /etc/mopidy/podcast/Podcasts.opml. That’s because I hadn’t put an opml file was, and in fact didn’t know what it was. I found out that it’s something you can export from your podcast app (except Google podcasts), so I loaded Podcast Guru, subscribed to some podcasts, downloaded the podcasts as an opml file, and put it in /etc/mopidy/podcast/Podcasts.opml.
The result is that mopidy no longer gives an error message saying it can’t find the file. However, it shows absolutely nothing in the Podcast directory. Just nothing. No errors that I can see, either.
So what can you tell me? Are there different forms of opml files? What could the problem be?
Thanks for any help.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.0">
<head>
<title>Podcasts</title>
</head>
<body>

    <outline title="Nothing To Write Home About"
             text="Nothing To Write Home About"
             type="rss"
             version="RSS"
             xmlUrl="http://www.ntwha.com/feed/"
             htmlUrl="http://www.ntwha.com/" />

    <outline title="Talking Simpsons"
             text="Talking Simpsons"
             type="rss"
             version="RSS"
             xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LaserTimeTalkingSimpsons"
             htmlUrl="http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/category/talking-simpsons/" />

</body>
</opml>

Here’s an example file. I would expect to see some error messages if the file you were using wasn’t valid though.

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Thanks: that format worked. Seems it was the type=“rss” that was needed on the entries.

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