diff --git a/src/Reader/Reader.php b/src/Reader/Reader.php
index ed87be89..4c0e1a37 100644
--- a/src/Reader/Reader.php
+++ b/src/Reader/Reader.php
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public static function importString($string)
         $libxml_errflag = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
         libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
         $dom = new DOMDocument;
-        $status = $dom->loadXML($string);
+        $status = $dom->loadXML(trim($string));
         libxml_disable_entity_loader(false);
         libxml_use_internal_errors($libxml_errflag);
 
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ public static function importString($string)
             // Build error message
             $error = libxml_get_last_error();
             if ($error && $error->message) {
+                $error->message = trim($error->message);
                 $errormsg = "DOMDocument cannot parse XML: {$error->message}";
             } else {
                 $errormsg = "DOMDocument cannot parse XML: Please check the XML document's validity";
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ public static function importString($string)
             $reader = new Feed\Atom($dom, $type);
         } else {
             throw new Exception\RuntimeException('The URI used does not point to a '
-            . 'valid Atom, RSS or RDF feed that Zend_Feed_Reader can parse.');
+            . 'valid Atom, RSS or RDF feed that Zend\Feed\Reader can parse.');
         }
         return $reader;
     }
@@ -340,13 +341,14 @@ public static function findFeedLinks($uri)
         $libxml_errflag = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
         libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
         $dom = new DOMDocument;
-        $status = $dom->loadHTML($responseHtml);
+        $status = $dom->loadHTML(trim($responseHtml));
         libxml_disable_entity_loader(false);
         libxml_use_internal_errors($libxml_errflag);
         if (!$status) {
             // Build error message
             $error = libxml_get_last_error();
             if ($error && $error->message) {
+                $error->message = trim($error->message);
                 $errormsg = "DOMDocument cannot parse HTML: {$error->message}";
             } else {
                 $errormsg = "DOMDocument cannot parse HTML: Please check the XML document's validity";
diff --git a/test/Reader/ReaderTest.php b/test/Reader/ReaderTest.php
index b2d3104f..2ca4b02c 100644
--- a/test/Reader/ReaderTest.php
+++ b/test/Reader/ReaderTest.php
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ public function tearDown()
         Reader\Reader::reset();
     }
 
+    public function testStringImportTrimsContentToAllowSlightlyInvalidXml()
+    {
+        $feed = Reader\Reader::importString(
+            '   ' . file_get_contents($this->_feedSamplePath.'/Reader/rss20.xml')
+        );
+    }
+
     public function testDetectsFeedIsRss20()
     {
         $feed = Reader\Reader::importString(