RSS Format

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9/29/2013 2:04:32 PM

Xak Tacit

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RSS Format

Hi there,

I wanted to ask if there is a way to format the elements of the RSS feed from a forum instance. The XML output from my forums is:

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title />
<link />
<description /> ...

Is there a way to have the output:

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title />
<link></link>
<description />...

The reason is I've a RSS feed reader that throws an exception when it hits <link /> (it displays the feed correctly if I manually change it to <link></link>), I've read that <link /> is syntactically identical to <link></link> and I've spent hours searching for the cause of SyndicationFeed in C# causing the exception but I'm unable to find a resolution.

Any help or advise you can offer would be most welcome.

9/29/2013 2:50:43 PM

Joe Audette

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Re: RSS Format

Hi,

If you are working with our source code, I just pushed a change to the repository to make it use the forum page url as the channel link so that element won't be empty.

If you're using our pre-compiled releases you'll have to wait for the next release for that change.

One thing you could try in the meantime is run the feed through feedburner and use the feedburner output url in your reader. Possibly/probably they output a better version of the feed.

Hope that helps,

Joe

9/29/2013 3:40:23 PM

Xak Tacit

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Re: RSS Format

As ever I'm very appreciative of your time and thank you for the quick response. feedburner does not resolve the issue and I'll await the next release with anticipation.

Thanks Joe.

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